John McLellan: Someone just added another day to November

Thirty days hath September, April, June ... and all the rest have 31.

My parliamentary colleague Miles Briggs MSP is an extraordinarily busy man – campaigning for Frank’s Law to pay for dementia care for under-65s, disabled access at Waverley and to save local GP surgeries – to the extent that he appears to have created a new day to cram it all in.

Miles Briggs, working so hard the year needs to be a day longerplaceholder image
Miles Briggs, working so hard the year needs to be a day longer

At least that’s the impression from his latest newsletter, which includes a handy 2018 calendar featuring St Andrew’s day Plus One: November 31.

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