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Article: Parliament recalled as MSPs gather in salute; minute's silence before speeches in honour of Queen Mother; Arrangements for the funeral service
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- April 3, 2002
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Political leaders were today returning from their Easter break to
pay tribute to the Queen Mother at a sitting of the Scottish
Parliament.
The short meeting was to begin with an address by the Parliament's
Presiding Officer, Sir David Steel.
A minute's silence was to follow, and then speeches from First
Minister Jack McConnell, SNP leader John Swinney, Tory leader David
McLetchie, and Jim Wallace, leader of the Liberal Democrats.
All the speeches were to pay tribute to the Queen Mother and were
offering condolences to the Royal Family.
The Scottish event was planned to be much shorter than the
recalled Westminster parliament, where proceedings today were to take
up to three hours.
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