Lorna Slater

Lorna Slater is our Green MSP for Lothian Region in the Scottish Parliament. She has been selected by our members as lead candidate for re-election in May 2026.

Lorna is #1 on our regional list, as well as our local candidate for Edinburgh Central. Both Votes Green to elect Lorna as your MSP – Lorna is forecast to win Edinburgh Central!

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Lorna was a Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens for six years, alongside Patrick Harvie. Until the end of the Bute House Agreement in 2024, she was Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity in the Scottish Government.

Before being elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2021, Lorna Slater worked as an electro-mechanical engineer in the tidal energy sector.

As Minister for Circular Economy and Biodiversity (2021-2024), Lorna was responsible for Scotland’s Nature Restoration Fund, and Biodiversity Strategy, and a national upgrade to Scotland’s recycling infrastructure, with the Recycling Improvement fund. Her work included banning the most problematic single-use plastics, preventing new waste incinerators being built, and stopping new opencast coal mines. She oversaw the legal protection of beavers and their re-introduction to new sites around Scotland.

Lorna’s work in Government made paying living wages a condition of receiving Government grants, raising the wages of thousands of workers.

Lorna now holds the Economy and Fair Work portfolio for the Scottish Green MSPs Group and regularly speaks in Parliament on building a fair and sustainable economy that respects planetary boundaries.

Locally, she is leading the creation of Friends of Holyrood Park, and is involved in the campaign to stop the pollution of Linlithgow Loch.

She is the Species Champion for the Northern Damselfly.