Leith Communications

Leith communications was a PR firm based in Edinburgh and run by Brian Monteith the former Federation of Conservative Students leader and Conservative MSP in the Scottish Parliament from 1999-2007.

It went bust and was dissolved on 12 April 1995.

Sunday Mail

August 31, 1997, Sunday

IT'S A NO NO!; pounds 53,000 strife of Brian; The firm Leith Communications run by anti-devo campaigner Brian Monteith went bust with debts of more than pounds 53,000

BYLINE: Angus Macleod

SECTION: Page 7

LENGTH: 439 words

A firm run by anti-devo campaigner Brian Monteith went bust with debts of more than pounds 53,000.
And a queue of angry creditors didn't get a penny of the money owed to them.
They included the state which was due thousands in tax. 
The cash was owed by public relations company Leith Communications Ltd, set up in 1986 by right-winger Monteith and his wife Shirley.
Thatcher loyalist Monteith is founder and co-ordinator of Think Twice, set up to urge Scots to say No, No to their own Parliament with tax powers.
Tory insiders are said to feel uncomfortable that someone with such a right-wing track record is centre stage in the No, No fight.
The liquidator's records show that after the company was wound up in 1995, ordinary creditors were owed a whopping pounds 50,901.
But because the company only had realised assets of pounds 5000 - used to pay expenses and liquidation fees - they had to settle for nothing.
Among the creditors was the Tory party who had to write off pounds 366 for an advert. Others are said to include the BBC.
Insiders say one of the main reasons for the firm's collapse was the decision by the Scottish Tories in 1991 to axe a glossy magazine produced by Monteith's company.
Before going into PR, Monteith was chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students and the Scottish Young Conservatives.
His right-wing history includes having had a job in Maggie Thatcher's Centre for Policy Studies.
Monteith now runs a one-man consultancy in Edinburgh, with the pro-smoking organisation FOREST among his clients.
Last night, Monteith agreed that creditors - including himself - had not received a penny when his firm went bust.