 alyn smith (born 15 september 1973) is a scottish politician, and scottish national party member of the european parliament for scotland. he is also the snp's agricultural spokesman. ==early life and career== he was born in glasgow in 1973 and grew up in scotland and saudi arabia. he returned to scotland in 1986, and later studied law and european law at leeds university and spent a year studying on the erasmus programme at the university of heidelberg in germany. he graduated from nottingham law school (a department of nottingham trent university) in 1996, and gained a master's degree in european studies from the college of europe in natolin (class of 1994-1995). he also for one year taught english in india and worked with scotland europa  in brussels. smith later moved to london where he qualified as a lawyer with commercial law firm clifford chance. == political career == prior to his election he worked on the snp staff in holyrood. he contested edinburgh west for the snp at the 2001 general election, coming fourth. at the 2003 scottish parliament election, he contested the same seat, again coming fourth. smith was elected for the first time - as scotland's youngest mep - in the 2004 european parliament election. he has since been re-elected twice at the 2009 european parliament election, and 2014 european parliament election. he is honorary president of both the youth wings of the snp, the young scots for independence and the federation of student nationalists, as well as a member of the snp's national executive committee. in his first two terms in the european parliament, smith
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