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John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan
(born 8 May 1947) is a Scottish football club chairman and a
Labour Party
politician. He was the
Member of Parliament
for the
Scottish
constituency
of
Airdrie and Shotts
in the
United Kingdom
. He was first
elected
to the
House of Commons
in the
1987 general election
for the
Motherwell North
constituency. The boundary of the constituency was changed, and in the 1997 election he was elected to the new constituency of
Hamilton North and Bellshill
. After more boundary changes in 2005 he was elected to the new constituency of Airdrie and Shotts.
He is the former
Home Secretary
.
[1]
Reid did not stand in the
2010 election
, and was made a life peer instead.
He is Chairman of
Celtic Football Club
in
Glasgow
.
He is a member of the
Labour Party
.