Adam Tomkins to step down as MSP to return to law professor role
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Adam Tomkins
Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins has announced he will return full-time to his role as the John Millar Professor of Public Law at the University of Glasgow next year.
Mr Tomkins, an MSP for the Glasgow region since 2016, will not seek re-election at the upcoming Scottish Parliament election in May 2021.
“Serving as one of our party’s elected representatives for Glasgow has been an enormous privilege and leaving the Scottish Parliament in 2021 will be a wrench,” he said.
“I am not leaving the Parliament for political reasons. I wish Jackson and his team every success. My reasons are personal, to do with the work I want to pursue in the coming years and to do with the kind of father I aspire to be to my four children.”
An expert in constitutional law, Mr Tomkins has been prominent in the Conservative Party since the independence referendum in 2014, in which he campaigned for a No vote.
He was tipped as a possible contender for the Scottish leadership, but indicated last September that he wouldn’t run if Murdo Fraser stood. Both men eventually endorsed Jackson Carlaw in the wake of the December election.
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