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Harris lost his seat in the 2015 general election to the [[Scottish National Party]]'s [[Stewart McDonald]] by 12,269 votes.<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/S14000034 Glasgow South], accessed 15 May 2015.</ref>
 
Harris lost his seat in the 2015 general election to the [[Scottish National Party]]'s [[Stewart McDonald]] by 12,269 votes.<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/S14000034 Glasgow South], accessed 15 May 2015.</ref>
  
In July 2015, it was announced Harris and wife are setting up a PR consultancy, [[Third Avenue Communications]], focusing on offering 'help to those in the eye of a media storm'.<ref> David Singleton [http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/450476/exlabour-mp-tom-harris-sets-up-pr-and-lobbying-shop-with-wife.thtml Ex-Labour MP Tom Harris sets up PR and lobbying shop with wife] ''Total Politics'', 13 July 2015, accessed 15 July 2015.</ref>
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In July 2015, it was announced Harris and wife, [[Carolyn Harris]], had founded a lobbying consultancy, [[Third Avenue Communications]], focusing on offering 'help to those in the eye of a media storm'.<ref> David Singleton [http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/450476/exlabour-mp-tom-harris-sets-up-pr-and-lobbying-shop-with-wife.thtml Ex-Labour MP Tom Harris sets up PR and lobbying shop with wife] ''Total Politics'', 13 July 2015, accessed 15 July 2015.</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 09:06, 15 July 2015

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Tom Harris was the Labour Party member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow South from 2005 to 2015 and was previously the MP for Glasgow Cathcart from 2001 to 2005.[1]

Harris lost his seat in the 2015 general election to the Scottish National Party's Stewart McDonald by 12,269 votes.[2]

In July 2015, it was announced Harris and wife, Carolyn Harris, had founded a lobbying consultancy, Third Avenue Communications, focusing on offering 'help to those in the eye of a media storm'.[3]

Notes

  1. Tom Harris, www.parliament.uk, accessed 24 August 2013.
  2. BBC News Glasgow South, accessed 15 May 2015.
  3. David Singleton Ex-Labour MP Tom Harris sets up PR and lobbying shop with wife Total Politics, 13 July 2015, accessed 15 July 2015.