Murray Elder News Today

Labour party adviser who was a key backroom figure in the drive for Scottish devolution

In 1979, shortly after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives won power at Westminster, a young Bank of England economist called Murray Elder was summoned for a job

Gordon Brown has paid tribute to Scottish Labour peer, Lord Murray Elder of Kirkcaldy, who has died aged 73.

A Labour Party veteran heralded as an “important backroom architect of devolution” has died aged 73 after collapsing just outside the House of Lords chamber on Tuesday evening.Lord Murray Elder, a childhood friend of Gordon Brown, served as gener...

Lord Elder was praised by former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair as an "architect" of devolution.

Tributes have been paid to Murray Elder, the Labour peer and former advisor, who has died at the age of 73.

Ex-supreme court president among those whose failure to take oath means they cannot sit or vote in second chamber

THE House of Lords is “good business” for Scottish Labour, it has been claimed, as figures reveal the party’s peers were paid more than their…