LORNA Slater has revealed her biggest political mistake was not preparing to become an MSP – and only found herself inThe party’s co-leader said she was building turbines in Germany during the pandemic when she was placed third on the regional list and did not expect to get voted in before the 2021 election.in December 2020, Slater said she received a phone call breaking the news and telling her she would likely be sitting in Holyrood the following year.
“I had to come back and prepare myself to be in the national debate and to be elected in a very short period of time, when if I had realised I was going to be electable I maybe would have spent more time during the pandemic preparing and getting to know how Parliament worked rather than building turbines.”
Slater was nominally co-leader of the party at the time but in practice the role was filled by MSP Alison Johnstone, now the Presiding Officer.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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