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Article: Better late than never; Holyrood official opening marred by row over SNP speech.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2004
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SCOTLAND'S new parliament building opens today - three years behind schedule and ten times over-budget.
But even as workmen put the finishing touches to the building, a row erupted over a bid by SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon to use the occasion to confront the Queen with a demand for Scottish independence.
Miss Sturgeon was accused of 'inappropriate politicisation' of the official opening ceremony for the [pounds sterling]431million building by exploiting it as a platform to demand the break-up of Britain.
Holyrood officials were also left seriously embarrassed last night after Scotland's poet laureate Edwin Morgan, who was commissioned to ...