Gavin Strang
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| Born | 10 July 1943 Crieff, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh, Churchill College (Cambridge) |
| Party | Labour |
Scottish Labour MP | |
Gavin Steel Strang is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 1970 until 2010 (including two terms for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh).[1][2] He was minister in the 1974–79 Labour government under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, as well as in the Cabinet under Tony Blair. By the time of his retirement at the 2010 general election, he was the Scottish MP who had sat longest in Parliament.