Former Scottish secretary David Mundell suggested the Scottish Parliament must ‘up its game’ Former Scottish secretary David Mundell insisted that Holyrood “still has the capacity to be a force for good right across Scotland”.
The Tory served as an MSP between 1999 – when the first Scottish Parliament was elected – and 2005, when he left Holyrood after being voted in as the MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale. However, he said a better than expected result for his party in those first elections meant the 18 Conservatives who were elected had “cramped conditions” in the Parliament’s initial temporary home, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, as accommodation there had been planned on the basis of polling suggesting there would only be nine Tory MSPs.
He added that politics had “changed” and become more polarised since then, particularly in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. As a result of that he claimed “you get much stronger people as the chair of the committees” in the UK Parliament. But he said the Parliament now had to work to re-establish the “positivity” it enjoyed in the earlier days of devolution.
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