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David Cairns MP

David Cairns MP (Lab, Inverclyde) – Former Minister of State for Scotland

David Cairns became a Labour MP for Inverclyde in 2001 after parliament reversed a law that prevented former Catholic priests from taking up a seat in the House of Commons. In the early 1990s he served as a Catholic priest for three years at churches in Scotland and London. He left the priesthood to become a director of the Christian Socialist Movement.

Once an MP, he was member of the joint committee on the consolidation of bills, then parliamentary aide to Malcolm Wicks, the work and pensions minister. He was appointed as a parliamentary undersecretary of state in the Scotland Office in 2006. Northern Ireland was briefly added to his responsibilities before he was promoted to minister of state in the Scotland Office in 2007. He resigned his post in September 2008.
 
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