Jeremy Purvis, Baron Purvis of Tweed is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and was MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale from 2003 to 2011. It was announced that he would be elevated to the House of Lords in August 2013
He was born in BerwickuponTweed, England, where he later attended school. He studied Politics and Modern History at university in London, graduating in 1996. While at university he worked for the ELDR Group in the European Parliament and Liberal International.
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