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Article: Scotland: an era of good feeling.(successful political reform headed by Tony Blair and Donald Dewar)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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On 6th May the relatively conservative and still decidedly unionist forces in Scottish politics won the first elections for the new devolved Parliament in Edinburgh, though for the time being they find expression in the policies of 'New Labour'. Led by Tony Blair's close ally Donald Dewar, transformed from a Scottish Secretary of State in Cabinet to a 'First Minister', they dominate the executive which takes over the main powers of the Scottish Office and some others previously exercised by United Kingdom Ministries.
Superficially at least, the new Scottish Parliament and executive, a team of Ministers sustained by the long-devolved bureaucracy of the Scottish ...