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Christopher Murray[1] (born 1987 or 1988)[2] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh since 2024. He gained the seat from Tommy Sheppard, a member of the Scottish National Party.
Chris Murray | |
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.jpg) Murray in 2023 | |
| Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Tommy Sheppard |
| Majority | 3,715 (8.1%) |
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| Born | 1987 or 1988 (age 36–37) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Political party | Labour |
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| Alma mater | Oxford University London School of Economics Harvard University |
Murray is the son of Scottish Labour politician Margaret Curran.[3] He grew up in Glasgow and attended Shawlands Academy. He then studied French and German at the University of Oxford, later studying at the London School of Economics and attending Harvard University as a John F. Kennedy Fellow.[4]
Murray began his career as a political assistant to the Labour politician Harriet Harman, holding the role for two years.[5] Harman later supported Murray's 2024 campaign for Parliament and canvassed alongside him in Edinburgh.[6] In 2014,[5] he began working as an attaché at the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Paris. He stayed in the role for four years.[4] He then served as an adviser on economic diplomacy at the OECD.[5]
After leaving diplomacy, he worked as a senior government relations adviser for the charity Save the Children and was a research fellow at the IPPR Scotland thinktank.[5] Murray also volunteered as chair of the Refugee Survival Trust charity and served on the advisory council of These Islands, a thinktank producing research in favour of British unionism.[4][5]
By May 2022, he was a policy manager for migration at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.[5]
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Murray was elected MP for the Edinburgh East and Musselburgh constituency at the 2024 United Kingdom general election.[7]
In July 2024, Portobello beach in Murray's constituency was closed for a short period after high levels of bacteria were present in the water.[8] Murray attributed this to sewage, but it was later confirmed by SEPA not to be a pollution-related incident.[9]
Murray moved to Edinburgh over eight years ago. Prior to his election as an MP, Murray lived off Easter Road.[10] Murray is gay.[11]
In 2019, Murray was a member of the advisory committee for the Labour for a Public Vote group. Following the poor Scottish Labour results in that year's European Parliament election, he called for members of the party to back another Brexit referendum.[12]
In a July 2024 interview with The Student, Murray called for an "immediate and lasting ceasefire" in the Gaza–Israel conflict.[13]
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