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Richard Arkless was born on 7 July, 1975 in Stranraer, Scotland, UK, is a Scottish politician. Discover Richard Arkless's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?

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Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 7 July, 1975
Birthday 7 July
Birthplace Stranraer, Scotland, UK
Nationality United Kingdom

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1975

Richard Lambert Thomas Arkless (born 7 July 1975) is a Scottish National Party politician, who was elected as MP for Dumfries and Galloway at the 2015 UK general election.

Arkless was born in Stranraer in 1975.

He spent an early part of his childhood living in London.

He returned to Stranraer when he was eight years old.

He received a BA in Financial Services from Glasgow Caledonian University and has an LLB from the University of Strathclyde.

2005

He defeated Labour's Russell Brown, who had held the Dumfries and Galloway seat since its creation ten years prior in 2005.

His wife Anne worked as his personal assistant.

2007

Arkless began to advocate Scottish independence after the 2007 Scottish Parliament election in which the SNP were elected as a minority government for the first time.

After a year, he said the SNP were "doing a pretty good job".

2011

When the SNP won a majority in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, he said in a May 2015 interview with The National, "I began to really research the figures – the GDP and tax-take – and I was completely and utterly astonished. I couldn't believe that Scotland had a higher per capita GDP, and much higher per capita tax-take over each of the last thirty-five years. I was flabbergasted and asked myself why I had believed completely the opposite all my life without every trying to make it evidence based."

2015

Standing for the SNP at the 2015 United Kingdom general election, Arkless received 23,440 votes, 41.4% of those cast, winning with a majority of 6,514 votes.

2017

He lost his seat at the following election in 2017.

Arkless lost his seat in the UK 2017 general election to Conservative MP Alister Jack.

He received 16,701 votes, 32.4% of those cast.

2019

At the 2019 election, Arkless contested the Dumfries and Galloway seat again as the SNP candidate.

He received 20,873 of the votes, 40.6% of those cast.

He lost out to the Scottish Secretary, Alister Jack for a second time.

Arkless left his job as a solicitor to run an online business.

2020

He returned to his career as a solicitor in 2020 following his retirement from politics.