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'''Keith Harding''' (21 November 1938 – 15 November 2021) was a Scottish politician who served as a [[Scottish Conservatives|Conservative]] [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]] (MSP) for [[Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|Mid Scotland and Fife]] from [[1999 Scottish Parliament election|1999]] to [[2003 Scottish Parliament election|2003]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Harding, Keith |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-18999?rskey=fhB9qd&result=1 |website=WHO WAS WHO |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref><br />
==Background==<br />
Harding was leader of [[Stirling Council]]<ref name="bbc" /> from 1991 to 1995. After being elected to [[Scottish Parliament|Holyrood]] he was the Conservative spokesman on [[Local government in Scotland|local government]] and housing.<br />
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Prior to the [[2003 Scottish Parliament election|2003 election]] he was moved from first to fifth place on the Conservative's list for [[Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|Mid Scotland and Fife]]. After parliament was dissolved he defected to the newly formed [[Scottish People's Alliance]].<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|title =Senior Tory defects to new party |publisher=BBC News| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2905595.stm |date =1 April 2003|accessdate =4 December 2010}}</ref> He subsequently fought [[Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Stirling]] for the SPA but came in a poor sixth place with only 642 votes (2.2%).<br />
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Harding was a member of the national policy committee of the [[The New Party (UK, 2003)|New Party]], the successor to the SPA.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newparty.co.uk/people/nationalpolicycommittee.asp |title=The New Party – It's Time for Change |access-date=2 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224203648/http://www.newparty.co.uk/people/nationalpolicycommittee.asp |archive-date=24 February 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Keith Harding died in [[Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine]], France on 15 November 2021, at the age of 82.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Monteith |first1=Brian |title=Obituary: Keith Harding, unassuming politician who nationalised a bank and cleaned up our streets |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/obituary-keith-harding-unassuming-politician-who-nationalised-a-bank-and-cleaned-up-our-streets-3493146 |access-date=24 October 2023 |publisher=The Scotsman |date=13 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Healey |first1=Derek |title=Keith Harding: Tributes paid to former Mid Scotland and Fife MSP following his death |url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/2740092/a-passionate-local-campaigner-tributes-to-former-mid-scotland-and-fife-msp-keith-harding/ |access-date=24 October 2023 |publisher=The Courier |date=16 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Keith Harding |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/QDiJMQpYbIts |website=MatchID |access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref><br />
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