Everything about Pat Lally totally explained
Pat Lally (born
1926) is a former Leader of
Glasgow City Council and
Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Early years
Pat Lally was born and brought up in the
Gorbals, a poor district of
Glasgow. He left school at 13, and was
conscripted to the
RAF after the War. He joined the
Labour Party in
1950 and was elected as a
Glasgow Corporation councillor in
1966.
Glasgow Council
Lally was involved in local government politics from 1966 to 1999. Although he was suspended from Labour's candidates list in
1977 in a housing allocation row, he returned to the
City Chambers in
1980. He was council leader of Glasgow Council in the early
1990s and became
Lord Provost of the new
City Council in
1995, serving until
1999. During this time he did much to promote Glasgow on the national and international stage. He was credited as the driving force behind civic successes such as the 1988
Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow becoming
European City of Culture in 1990, and
European City of Architecture in 1999. He was also played an important role in the creation of the
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, which is sometimes dubbed 'Lally's Palais'.
In
1997 he and
Alex Mosson were suspended by the Labour party in a "votes for trips" scandal. Both took the party to the
Court of Session and had the suspension revoked. Lally retired from local government in 1999.
Pat Lally is nicknamed '
Lazarus', as a result of his numerous political comebacks.
'Retirement'
He quit the Labour Party in 2003, but later that year stood at the age of 77 against
Mike Watson in
Glasgow Cathcart to be an
MSP as a health campaign candidate, and stood again to be an MSP in the
October 2005 by-election, against ex-council leader
Charlie Gordon, as an independent for the same constituency.
Lally stood as a candidate for the
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party in the
2007 Scottish Parliament election on the
Glasgow list. His wife, Peggy, died on polling day,
May 3.
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