Fife Labour Leader, Alex Rowley, discusses some of the key issues related to next years Council budget and encourages Fifers to get involved in the debate.
After you have listened to Alex please visit Fife Council’s ‘Have Your say’ online questionnaire and let the SNP/ Lib Dem administration know how much you value local services in your part of Fife.
Alex Rowley is 48 years old and is currently a Fife councillor and Labour Group Leader at the forefront of the fight to save frontline services from the SNP Lib Dem cuts in Fife.
Alex was born in Dunfermline brought up in Kelty and has three grown up children and a three-year old granddaughter. Educated at St Columba’s High School Dunfermline, Newbattle Abbey College Dalkeith, and the University of Edinburgh where he graduated with an MA in Politics and Sociology and an MSC in Community Education.
Alex has wide experience of local government having been first elected to Fife Regional Council in 1990 where he was Chairman of Finance before going on to be leader of the new Fife Council. He then worked for the Labour Party before taking up a post as an education official with the TUC and has worked for the last five years as an assistant to Gordon Brown MP.
