Pat Lally

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Pat Lally, is a former Leader of Glasgow City Council and Lord Provost of Glasgow.

[edit] Early years

Pat Lally was born and brought up in the Gorbals, a poor district of Glasgow. He left school at 13, and was conscripted to the RAF after the War. He joined the Labour Party in 1950 and was elected as a Glasgow Corporation councillor in 1966.

[edit] Glasgow Council

Lally was suspended from Labour's candidates list in 1977 in a housing allocation row, but returned to the City Chambers in 1980. He was council leader of Glasgow Council in the early 1990s and became Lord Provost of the new City Council in 1996, serving until 1999. In 1997 he was suspended by the party in a "votes for trips" scandal along with Alex Mosson. Both took the party to the Court of Session and had the suspension revoked.

[edit] 'Retirement'

Lally retired from local government in 1999 after being credited as being the driving force behind 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow becoming European City of Culture in 1990, the City of Architecture (1991) and the building of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, which was dubbed 'Lally's Palais'.

Pat Lally is nicknamed 'Lazarus Lally', as a result of his numerous policical comebacks.

He quit the Labour Party in 2003, but later that year stood at the age of 77 against Mike Watson in Glasgow Cathcart to be an MSP as a health campaign candidate, and stood again to be an MSP in the October 2005 by-election, against ex-council leader Charlie Gordon, as an independent for the same constituency.

He now lives across from King's Park Secondary school.

Preceded by unknown	Leader, Glasgow Council 1986–1992	Succeeded by Jean McFadden
Preceded by Jean McFadden	Leader, Glasgow Council 1994–1996	Succeeded by Jean McFadden
Preceded by Tommy Dingwall	Lord Provost of Glasgow 1996–1999	Succeeded by Alex Mosson