About Ian Murray (Scottish politician)
Ian Murray (born 10 August 1976) is a British politician who has served as Minister of State in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since September 2025, he also served in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from September 2025 until its abolition in July 2026, having previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South since 2010. He previously served as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2020 to 2024. Murray previously served as a City of Edinburgh Councillor for the wards of Liberton and Liberton/Gilmerton from 2003 to 2010. Murray was the sole Labour Party MP representing a Scottish Constituency from 2015 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2023. == Early life and career == Ian Murray was born on 10 August 1976 in Edinburgh, to a cooper father and shop assistant mother. He was brought up in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh, where he attended Dumbryden Primary School, then Wester Hailes Education Centre. Murray studied Social Policy and Law at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an M.A. Hons. While studying at university, he had a part-time job in a local fish & chip shop before setting up and running a pizza delivery service. After graduation, Murray worked for Royal Blind in pensions management, before being head-hunted by an Edinburgh-based internet television station (Worldart.com) during the dot-com boom where he helped to build a new online TV station.
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