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The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

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I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

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I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn't be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I'm not so sure he was.

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It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

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I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

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Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

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I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

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I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.

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I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change.

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As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: January 3rd, 1973

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