Sarah Boyack is Labour member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh Central. She comes from Edinburgh, where her father was an important figure in the Labour Party. She became politically active in Glasgow University Labour Club in 1979, and went on to become its chair, and chair of the National Organisation of Labour Students. During her time at Glasgow University, she was involved in supporting the twinning with Nablus University in the West Bank, which involved serious clashes between supporters and opponents of Zionism. She was elected to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999, and she became Minister for the Environment in the Scottish Executive. However questions were widely asked about her competence for the post ("Little Miss Cockup" was one newspaper headline) and eventually she lost her position as a member of the executive, but she remains a member of the Scottish Parliament, and was re-elected in 2003.
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