What is Danny Alexander?
{{BLP sources|date=December 2011}} [[File:Danny Alexander MP at Bournemouth.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sir Danny Alexander]] '''Sir Daniel Grian 'Danny' Alexander''' (born 15 May 1972) is a [[British people|British]] [[politician]] who was the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat [[coalition]] government from 2010 - 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/chief-secretary-to-the-treasury|title=Chief Secretary to the Treasury - GOV.UK|website=www.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-05-27}}</ref> He was the [[Liberal Democrats|Liberal Democrat]] Member of Parliament for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey but lost his seat in the [[United Kingdom general election, 2015|2015 general election]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/election-2015-32653732/election-results-lib-dem-danny-alexander-loses-to-snp|title=Lib Dem Danny Alexander loses to SNP|website=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-27}}</ref> Danny Alexander was born in [[Edinburgh]] and first became an MP at the [[United Kingdom general election, 2005|2005 general election]]. Between 2005 and 2010, Danny Alexander was the Liberal Democrats Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions. When the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed on 11 May 2010, Alexander was appointed as the Secretary of State for [[Scotland]]. He was made the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 29 May 2010, due to the resignation of [[David Laws]]. He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2015 Dissolution Honours]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.dannyalexander.org.uk/ Danny Alexander's official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060202002147/http://www.dannyalexander.org.uk/ |date=2006-02-02 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Danny}} [[Category:1972 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Liberal Democrats (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Members of the British House of Commons for Scottish constituencies]] [[Category:Secretaries of State for Scotl