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Ronald Brown (born June 1940), known as Ron Brown and nicknamed Red Ron, was a Scottish Labour Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for the Edinburgh Leith constituency, from the 1979 general election to the 1992 general election. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 1992 after he was fined £1000 for destroying the contents and fittings of his ex-lover’s flat. He contested his seat as an Independent Labour candidate in 1992 but lost to the official Labour candidate Malcolm Chisholm, coming fifth with 10.3% of the vote. After leaving the House of Commons he remained active in public life, acting as president of the Edinburgh Trade Unions Council. Ron Brown was known for a number of controversial actions: He stood as a candidate for the Scottish Socialist Party in the inaugural election for the Scottish Parliament in 1999, but was not elected.
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