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Article: Interview: Jack McConnell: Affairs of state (Part 1)
- Article from:
- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- January 6, 2002
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EVERY autumn, Jack McConnell's father would round up the sheep on
his farm at Glenscorrodale on the Isle of Arran and take them to
market. The farm, with its small burn running past the house, sat in
a valley, bleak and isolated in the winter months, and here McConnell
would wait with his mother, two brothers and sister, for the phone
call telling them the buyers' assessment of the flock. The tension my
mother went through waiting for that phone call..., he remem-bers.
Because that price determined how much money there was in the
house for the next 12 months. Since then, he has had to get used to
waiting anxiously for the judgment of others to determine his future.
It is not always fair of ...