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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Steph Brawn

Pete Wishart reveals high and lows of 21 years on the SNP front bench

After fighting for Scotland’s independence on the SNP front bench since 2001, Pete Wishart has decided to move to the backbenches for the first time in his parliamentary career. We sat down with the veteran MP to commemorate the highs and lows of his time at Westminster. 

HE might have been on the SNP front bench for 21 years, but Pete Wishart is still the first to admit victories for the party can be rare in the contemptuous world of Westminster.

Nonetheless, we had the party's longest serving MP look back over the past two decades and pin down what he felt was his and his party’s greatest achievement in that time, and he had no doubt about his answer.

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