Goodlad in the running for two Herald political awards
SHETLAND’S MSP is once again in the running for two national awards, including being earmarked as “one to watch” at Holyrood.
Hannah Mary Goodlad is up for two prizes at The Herald’s Scottish Politician of the Year awards, months after being elected as Shetland’s first SNP MSP.
Goodlad is one of five in the running for the One to Watch award, and is also nominated in the Politics in Business category as well.
It comes just a month after Goodlad was named as “one to watch” at the Holyrood magazine’s political awards, earning praise from the judges for running an impressive and very local campaign.
Reform’s Thomas Kerr, Labour’s Jenny Young, the SNP’s Jack Middleton and the Liberal Democrats’ David Green will go up against Goodlad for the One to Watch award at the awards ceremony next month.
The Herald said Goodlad was selected for going to straight into the public finance minister role after taking office, and “for being confident on a wide range of tricky topics”.
In the Politics in Business category, Goodlad has been nominated alongside Reform’s Scottish leader Malcolm Offord and Scottish Labour’s Daniel Johnson.
The newspaper said Goodlad’s nomination “pointed to the significant business experience she has brought to parliament and used in her ministerial role, including her work with businesses on non-domestic rates”.
The awards, which are presented by Scottish Power, will be announced at a ceremony at Edinburgh’s Prestonfield House on Thursday 26 November.
Goodlad was voted in to represent Shetland in Holyrood in May, marking the first time that the SNP had won the Shetland seat at the Scottish Parliament.
She beat fellow MSPs Joe Fagan and Jenny Young to Holyrood magazine’s “one to watch” award in September, with her collaborative cross-party approach recognised by the judges.
Holyrood magazine said the award was regularly given to the politicians who had caught the attention in the Scottish Parliament or were a “star in the making”.
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