Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray receives top award for book on saving Hearts FC

Ian Murray has won a coveted prize for his book which told how Heart of Midlothian football club was saved from financial ruin six years ago.
By Evening News Reporter
Published 26th Feb 2020, 21:00 BST
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The Edinburgh South MP and lifelong Hearts fan, who is in the running for the deputy leadership of the UK Labour Party, was awarded Best Biography or Memoir by a Parliamentarian last night, in the Parliamentary Book Awards ceremony held at the House of Commons.

This is Our Story: How the Fans Kept Their Hearts Beating was described by the judges as an “inspiring account of the importance and power of community”.

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Other winners on the night included Murray’s fellow Labour politician Rachel Reeves, who was awarded Best Non-Biographical Book by a Parliamentarian for Women of Westminster:

Murray won the award for his book on how Hearts FC was saved from liquidation by the community. Picture: TSPLMurray won the award for his book on how Hearts FC was saved from liquidation by the community. Picture: TSPL
Murray won the award for his book on how Hearts FC was saved from liquidation by the community. Picture: TSPL

The MPs who Changed Politics, and LBC broadcaster James O’Brien, who took home Best Political Book by a non-Parliamentarian for his book How to be Right: In A World Gone Wrong.

The awards ceremony was hosted by Dame Margaret Hodge MP, with Pippa Crerar, Political Editor of the Daily Mirror returning to present for the second year.

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