Keith Harding
{{Short description|Scottish Conservative politician (1938–2021)}}
{{for|the British physician|Keith G. Harding}}
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|birth_place = Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
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Keith Harding (21 November 1938 – 15 November 2021) was a Scottish politician who served as a Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Scotland and Fife from 1999 to 2003.{{cite web |title=Harding, Keith |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-18999?rskey=fhB9qd&result=1 |website=WHO WAS WHO |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |access-date=24 October 2023}}
Background
Harding was leader of Stirling Council from 1991 to 1995. After being elected to Holyrood he was the Conservative spokesman on local government and housing.
Prior to the 2003 election he was moved from first to fifth place on the Conservative's list for Mid Scotland and Fife. After parliament was dissolved he defected to the newly formed Scottish People's Alliance.{{cite web|title =Senior Tory defects to new party |publisher=BBC News| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2905595.stm |date =1 April 2003|accessdate =4 December 2010}} He subsequently fought Stirling for the SPA but came in a poor sixth place with only 642 votes (2.2%).
Harding was a member of the national policy committee of the New Party, the successor to the SPA.{{Cite web |url=http://www.newparty.co.uk/people/nationalpolicycommittee.asp |title=The New Party – It's Time for Change |access-date=2 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224203648/http://www.newparty.co.uk/people/nationalpolicycommittee.asp |archive-date=24 February 2007 |url-status=dead }}
Keith Harding died in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine, France on 15 November 2021, at the age of 82.{{cite news |last1=Monteith |first1=Brian |title=Obituary: Keith Harding, unassuming politician who nationalised a bank and cleaned up our streets |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/obituary-keith-harding-unassuming-politician-who-nationalised-a-bank-and-cleaned-up-our-streets-3493146 |access-date=24 October 2023 |publisher=The Scotsman |date=13 December 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Healey |first1=Derek |title=Keith Harding: Tributes paid to former Mid Scotland and Fife MSP following his death |url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/2740092/a-passionate-local-campaigner-tributes-to-former-mid-scotland-and-fife-msp-keith-harding/ |access-date=24 October 2023 |publisher=The Courier |date=16 November 2021}}{{cite web |title=Keith Harding |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/QDiJMQpYbIts |website=MatchID |access-date=24 October 2023}}
References
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External links
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Category:Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
Category:Scottish Conservative councillors
Category:People from Chipping Norton
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