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I met Lucy Watkins, who is the first secretary for Scottish affairs in the British embassy in Beijing; Marie MacRae, who is SDI's head of office there; the China-Britain Business Council, which is headed by another global Scot; the British Council; and VisitBritain, which provides services for VisitScotland in China.
I am not sure whether these days I am supposed to intervene during the speech of a Conservative spokesman. Mary Scanlon questioned the need for the strategy.
That would warm my heart, but I will have to wait a while to learn the answer to that question.To answer Mary Scanlon’s question, I return to my point about process.
The member will be aware that Lib Dem-led Highland Council is today proposing to privatise five of its care homes. As Mary Scanlon pointed out, that will save money.
That clarity is critical if we are to ensure that all those who would benefit from the vaccine come forward to get it. I thank Mary Scanlon for her on-going co-operation on this issue.
The pent-up anger and frustration are not in the Scottish people, as Mary Mulligan indicated, but in the 46 Labour MSPs, whose sense of historic inevitability about their right to rule was shattered in May 2007.