Name	Tommy Sheridan
Height	5' 9"
Naionality	British
Date of Birth	7 March 1964
Place of Birth	Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Tommy Sheridan (born 7 March 1964, Glasgow) is a Scottish socialist politician. He has had various prominent roles within the socialist movement in Scotland and is currently one of two co-convenors of the left-wing Scottish political party Solidarity.

He attended the Roman Catholic schools of St Monica's Primary and Lourdes Secondary before entering the University of Stirling, from which he graduated with an honours degree in Economics. He obtained a MSc in Social Research at the University of Strathclyde in 2008.[1] He is currently studying law at Strathclyde Law School, on the two year fast track degree. [2]

Sheridan was active as a Militant tendency entryist in the Labour Party, before leaving Labour as a member of Scottish Militant Labour (SML). He was a leading campaigner against the poll tax in Scotland, and was jailed for six months for attending a warrant sale after Glasgow Sheriff Court had served a court order on him banning his presence. He has also been jailed twice as a consequence of his campaigning against the presence of the nuclear fleet at Faslane Naval Base.

In 2006 in the case of Sheridan v News International he won an action for defamation against the News of the World and was awarded £200,000 damages. On Sunday 16 December 2007, Tommy Sheridan was charged with perjury [3] In the following weeks half a dozen of his relations and colleagues were also charged. On 27 January 2009, he was indicted to stand trial for perjury, together with this wife, Gail. Sheridan has previously stated "the streets of Lothian must be crime-free if the police can devote time to harassing a family", following the charging of two with perjury, not to mention five others who "are my friends".[4]

Since leaving Holyrood, he has pursued a media career, with a chat show on Talk 107, a show at the Edinburgh Fringe and appearing on Celebrity Big Brother 2009 for a reported fee of £100,000. He has justified this appearance by saying that he needed the money and that it is "..an honest offer of employment. I'm not crossing a picket line. I'm not hurting anyone."

It was announced in March 2009 that Sheridan would be standing as a candidate in the 2009 European Parliament elections for No to the EU – Yes to Democracy, a left-wing alter-globalisation coalition led by RMT union leader Bob Crow,[5][6] although there appeared to be some confusion over whether he would take up his seat if elected.