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Roseanna Cunningham (born 27 July 1951) is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021. She was previously Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training from 2014 until 2016.
Aug 22, 2020 · Scotland's environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham has announced she is to stand down as an MSP at the next Holyrood election. The SNP minister said she had taken the decision after "some...
Aug 22, 2020 · Scotland's environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham has announced she is to stand down as an MSP at the next Holyrood election. The SNP minister said she had taken the decision after "some...
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Apr 18, 2021 · SNP. Politics. By Kirsteen Paterson @kapaterson Journalist. Share. Roseanna Cunningham was one of the first MSPs elected to the devolved Scottish Parliament. ‘SOMETIMES it’s like reading your own obituary,” Roseanna Cunningham says of accounts of her political career. “A bit of me thinks ‘is it really that extraordinary?’”
- Kirsteen Paterson
The declaration of a climate emergency has propelled Roseanna Cunningham further into the spotlight, with every decision taken by the Scottish Government increasingly assessed by how it contributes to Scotland’s part in tackling global warming.
Speakers. Roseanna Cunningham was born in Glasgow in 1951 but spent most of her early years in Edinburgh and East Lothian. In 1960, she travelled to Australia with her family and subsequently completed her schooling in Fremantle, Western Australia and obtained her first university degree from University of Western Australia.
She promoted veteran politician Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, former environment minister and the then minister for community safety and legal affairs, to the wide-ranging post. Perhaps no one was more surprised than Cunningham herself by her promotion.
