Article: JOHN MACDOUGALL

Labour MP for Glenrothes

Heavyweights of local councils, especially those who have led successful and well-regarded administrations, can come to the House of Commons and feel very disappointed. In 2001, having been a huge fish in a relatively small pool, John MacDougall found himself a small fish, and perhaps a fish out of water, in the pool of Labour backbenchers of the House of Commons. On our plane journeys back to Scotland on a Thursday night, when we often sat next to each other, he would tell me that he thought it was a great mistake ever to have come to London.

The circumstances of his election were that with the establishment of the Holyrood Parliament in Edinburgh, the MP for Fife ...

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