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We wrestle with the question continually: MSPs ask me about concerns about their locality to do with issues and decisions over which I have absolutely no control.
Welfare reforms touch on our direct experience as MSPs. If those on the Tory benches do not recognise that, that is perhaps because people whose disability benefits have been cut altogether do not go to their Tory MSP as a first port of call.