Struan Stevenson
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Struan Stevenson (born April 4, 1948 in Ballantrae) is a member of both the Executive and the Shadow Cabinet of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. He is a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.
He had been a local councillor, and stood for parliamentary seats at the 1987 election, the 1992 election and 1997 election. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999, and retained his seat in 2004.
Stevenson attracted some attention when it was revealed he had accepted gifts from the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an organisation that has been blacklisted by American and some European authorities. [1]