Stephen Morrison (Scottish Tory activist and PR operative)

Stephen Morrison is a right wing activist. There is a Stephen Morrison who is the Agriculture and Environment 'spokesman' for the far right Veritas party formed by Robert Kilroy-Silk on splitting from the United Kingdom Independence Party, but he seems not to be the same person.

The influence of the FCS is most conspicuous in Scotland, where Brian Monteith, former national federation chairman, runs Leith Communications, a public relations company, with Stephen Morrison, once an FCS national committee member. Monteith was Scots YC chairman last year, and Morrison, also an Edinburgh councillor, is his successor. The pair work commercially for numerous constituency associations, and organised the successful anti-devolution campaign at the last Scottish Tory conference. Their agency - whose clients include the South African consul in Edinburgh - has reached a shortlist of four for a lucrative Scottish Office contract to popularise government policy north of the border. The political adviser to Malcolm Rifkind, the Scottish Secretary, is Graham Carter, another former FCS activist who stays in close touch with Morrison and Monteith.

Affiliations

• Federation of Conservative Students
• European Democrat Students Vice-chairman 1982/3, Executive director 1983/4 (the same year as his then future colleague at Leith Communications Brian Monteith was a vice-president)
• Leith Communications 1986-1995