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This sort of approach has never been taken before in this context and I reassure the member that the initiative is genuinely new; however, we very much hope that it will provide a template for future activity. As someone who has two sons who will graduate this summer, I should probably declare an interest.
I said then that I would back SNP ministers when they got it right and oppose them when they got it wrong, so I hope members from all parties will accept that today I speak with genuine conviction and not with party politics in mind.Many who have an interest in today's debate cannot be here and it is for them that I ask to speak: 270 men, women and children who died as a result of the Lockerbie bombing on 21 December 1988; over 400 parents who lost a son...
Young people seem much more personally engaged in ecological activity and eco-awareness than do people of my age. Perhaps we must learn from our sons, daughters and grandchildren how to take that agenda forward.
When I met the unions about the downsizing of the Glasgow passport office, they highlighted the fact that not only are the individual employees affected, but the brothers, sisters, mothers, sons, daughters and cousins are affected, too.
Let us remember where we came from. The council tax is the son of the poll tax, which was brought in with the aim of saving the skins of the then Conservative Government, which had suffered horrendous by-election losses to the Liberal Democrats.
As Orkney’s MSP, I should declare an interest as the son of an inshore fisherman. In fact, it was my father’s determination to become an inshore fisherman that took us to Orkney in the first place.
As members can imagine, the days on which we watched him play at Murrayfield were proud days for us all. My son-in-law, Mark Follows, has just taken on the role of coach at Dunfermline Rugby Football Club.
Our founding member was John Lewis senior, who started up a shop pretty much where we trade at the moment on Oxford Street in London. He had two sons; one trained as a barrister and the other stayed in the business.