A SCOTTISH songwriter has spoken about how his music helped inspire Winnie Ewing to her stunning political victory in the Hamilton by-election in 1967.
Ewing took 46% of the vote in a constituency the SNP had not even contested at the 1966 General Election, defeating Labour’s Alexander Wilson.
She would go onto tell Jim McLean, now 84, that his LP Scottish Republican Songs helped her on her road to political success.
