Top Tory calls for 'revolution' against tsars; McLetchie attacks Labour 'big government'

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: May 16, 2004| Author: Douglas Fraser; Political Editor | Copyright information

SCOTLAND needs its ownBolshevik revolution to get rid of the many "tsars" being created by government to tackle policies from discipline to racism in football to berries - though the call came yesterday from the least likely of revolutionaries, David McLetchie, the Scottish Tory leader.

He was addressing his party's spring conference in Dundee's Caird Hall. Maintaining the theme set on Friday by UK leader Michael Howard, the MSP group chief claimed the patriotic high ground for the Co...