The Scottish Prohibition Party (SPP) was a minor Scottish political party which advocated alcohol prohibition.

The SPP was founded in 1901. In its early years, Bob Stewart acted as the party's full-time organiser. In 1908, Stewart and Edwin Scrymgeour were elected to Dundee Town Council. The leftist Stewart soon had a falling out with the SPP over its religiosity. In 1909-10, he led a Marxist split to form the socialist Prohibition and Reform Party, which merged with the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. On issues other than prohibition, Scrymgeour generally supported Labour's positions. Still, he was the only prohibitionist ever elected to the House of Commons.

Scrymgeour lost his seat in the 1931 general election. The SPP was disbanded in 1935, against the wishes of Scrymgeour.

See also

  • National Prohibition Party (UK)
  • Prohibition Party; the third longest established party in the United States.

References

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Further reading

  • Southgate, Donald, "Edwin Scrymgeour" in Three Dundonians (Dundee: Abertay Historical Society, 1968)