Gavin Strang

The Right Honourable
Gavin Strang
The Right Honourable Gavin Strang
	Strang in 1997
Minister of State for Transport
	In office; 2 May 1997 – 18 June 1998
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	John Watts
Succeeded by	John Reid
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
	In office; 5 November 1992 – 2 May 1997
Leader	John Smith; Tony Blair
Preceded by	Ron Davies
Succeeded by	Douglas Hogg
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
	In office; 18 October 1974 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson; James Callaghan
Preceded by	Edward Bishop
Succeeded by	Jerry Wiggin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy
	In office; 7 March 1974 – 18 October 1974
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Peter Emery
Succeeded by	Alex Eadie
Member of Parliament ; for Edinburgh East; Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (1997–2005)
	In office; 18 June 1970 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	George Willis
Succeeded by	Sheila Gilmore
Personal details
Born	Gavin Steel Strang; 10 July 1943; Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh; Churchill College, Cambridge

Gavin Steel Strang (born 10 July 1943) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 1970 until 2010 (including two terms for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh). He served as a minister in the 1974–79 Labour government under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, as well as in the Cabinet under Tony Blair. By the time of his retirement at the 2010 general election, he was the longest-serving Scottish MP.

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