Mairi Gougeon

The Most Honourable Mairi Gougeon is a Scottish politician who has served as the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament since the 26 May 2021. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Scottish constituency of Angus in Eastern Scotland since 2020. She was formerly a regional MP for South Western Scotland before changing residency during her period of peership.

Gougeon is known for her many terms as the leader of the Scottish National Party and her service as the most recent female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

2019
Gougeon became a member of the Scottish National Party on the 13 October 2019, in which she would be formally elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on the 16 October 2019.

Throughout her three-year membership to the party, Gougeon has served as the party leader four times. On her first appointment, Gougeon was approved by then party leader, Cato the Younger, to serve several days as party leader on a temporary basis. Gougeon would eventually succeed Cato upon his resignation on the 11 November 2019 until the 12 December of that year in which she would take a small leave in order to focus on family life. During this period, she was replaced by Janet Jackson until she returned to the position on the 19 December 2019.

Throughout her early days of leadership, Gougeon actively focused on the recruitment of members and establishing the party's grassroots foundations which were very poorly developed prior. During this time she established the party across all regions of Scotland, with the Conservative Party being defeated and forced to retreat within Northern Scotland until early 2020.

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
20th December 2019

First Gougeon Ministry
February 2020

Deputy Leader
20th July 2020 - Co-Chair under Richard

Reed Premiership
Defence - 3rd Oct (Long-Bailey) and 13th Nov (Bell) and 24th Dec (Koup) DPM - 10th Dec (Koup)

Leaving the People First Coalition
Under Ardern's Leadership