In 1999, around the time the first MSPs of the reconvened Scottish Parliament were being sworn in, I was preparing to take up another kind of elected office.
It’s the issue everyone is talking about. Every-one, that is, except MSPs when they are sitting in the Holyrood debating chamber.
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