Alison Thewliss was first elected as SNP MP for Glasgow Central in 2015, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 6,474.
Glasgow Central is considered one of the more affluent of the Glasgow City seats and has experienced substantial regeneration in recent years, although it does also still contain significant pockets of deprivation. Straddling the River Clyde it includes the areas of the Gorbals, Calton, Anderston, Govanhill, and Pollokshields. Alongside Glasgow’s commonwealth arena, the seat contains both Strathclyde and Caledonian Universities and a quarter of voters are said to be students.
The seat was gained by the SNP from Labour in 2015. After the First World War, it was once represented in Parliament by the Conservative Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law.
Alison Thewliss is the SNP Treasury spokesperson in the House of Commons. She was previously the party’s spokesperson on Cities. She was defeated by 26 votes to 17 amongst her SNP colleagues in her December 2022 bid to become the SNP leader at Westminster.
Born in 1982, Thewliss studied politics and international relations at the University of Aberdeen, and worked as a researcher for a Member of the Scottish Parliament before becoming an MP.
She joined the SNP at the age of 17.
Thewliss served on Glasgow City Council between 2007 and 2015. Thewliss later became a member of the council’s executive committee, and was the party’s spokeswoman for land and environmental services when she was in the counci
Thewliss is a member of CND and is vehemently opposed to nuclear weapons. She is married with two young children.
At Westminster, Alison Thewliss is the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Gaps in Support; Immigration Detention; Infant Feeding and Inequalities; Votes at 16; Working at Height.
She is the Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency; HIV and Aids; Hospitality and Tourism; International Students; Jazz Appreciation; Limits to Growth; Loneliness; Mortgage Prisoners; Museums; Ovarian Cancers; Students; Swimming; Theatre; Fuel Poverty Fairs and Showgrounds; University; Women’s Heath; India; the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community; Drug Policy Reform; Fair Business Banking; Domestic Violence; Baha i Faith; Anti Corruption; British Hindus; and British Sikhs.
Email: alison.thewliss.mp@parliament.uk
Website – http://www.alisonthewliss.scot
Twitter: twitter.com/alisonthewliss
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AlisonThewlissSNP?fref=ts
