Morag Balfour
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Morag Balfour (b. 1973) is co-chair of the Scottish Socialist Party.
She was elected to this post at its conference in March 2006, along with Tommy Sheridan, and re-elected at the October conference, along with John McAllion. She had not previously been a central figure in the SSP at a national level or a member of the executive. However she had been peace and disarmament spokesperson, chair of the Glenrothes branch and the Fife and Mid-Scotland region, candidate in Central Fife at the Scottish parliamentary election, 2003 and writes a regular column in the Scottish Socialist Voice.
She is a Quaker, a member of the Iona Community, and active in Trident Ploughshares. In 2001 she was tried and acquitted over a protest outside Faslane Naval Base.[1]
She has a disability which means that she is a wheelchair user, although she can walk short distances with the help of a walking stick. She lives with her brother in Glenrothes.
