Bill Walker (politician)

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William Charles Walker, known as Bill Walker, (born 20 February 1929, Dundee) is the deputy chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party. He was a member of Parliament from 1979 to 1997 and one of the Maastricht Rebels against the embattled administration of John Major during the mid-1990s. He never held any office in government.

He was first elected in the 1979 general election as the member for Perth and East Perthshire. In 1983 he became MP for the newly-formed Tayside North, a seat he held until being defeated by the Scottish National Party's John Swinney in 1997.

He was elected Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Conservatives in June 2000, and again in 2006.

Bill Walker was also implicated in the Cash for Question scandal that involved other Tory MPs but the matter was not taken further when it emerged that he had given the cash to charity.

[edit] Publications

  • Scotland - Reversing the Tory Decline, by Dr.Mark Mayall (Monday Club Chairman), Foreword by Bill Walker, M.P. Monday Club Policy Paper, February 1991.

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