Put Holyrood on hold until the general election campaign is over Labour has hauled the Scottish Executive into the fray

From: The Scotsman | Date: April 8, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

YOU have to feel sorry for Andrew and Caroline Duff of Dundee. Last month, they had to show Tony Blair (and his entire entourage) round their little terraced house. Yesterday, Anne McGuire, a loud and rumbustious Scottish Office minister, and Malcolm Chisholm, a quiet and mousey Scottish Executive minister, dropped in for tea, followed by reporters, photographers and assorted Labour flunkies.

The Duffs' problem is that they live right in the middle of the fiercest political battleground in Scotland - Dundee East. But more than that, they live in an innovative housing scheme where they share ...

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