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Oct 11, 2020 · Dewar’s measured and strictly within the law approach allowed Labour’s detractors to indict on the basis of political impotence. When Jim Sillars captured Govan for the SNP at a by-election in November 1988, there followed months of soul-searching within the party. Dewar’s response was to hold his nerve and take a calculated gamble.
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Donald Dewar was selected for the seat of Glasgow Garscadden by a majority of three, after Dewar's friend in the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, MP Willie Small, died unexpectedly. He was returned to parliament at a by-election on 13 April 1978, a crucial victory which was seen as halting the rise of the Scottish National Party .
Oct 3, 2010 · Donald Dewar died after a single, troubled year in office as first minister, dogged by controversies like Clause 28 and the Holyrood building project. He died before devolution could be thoroughly ...
Oct 12, 2020 · It left a huge sense of political and emotional loss at the top and heart of Scottish Labour – as well as public life – and it is one tangibly felt by those close to all three to this day. Donald Dewar should be remembered kindly and affectionately: as not a saint or perfect or even really as the ‘Father of the Nation’: a phrase he disliked.
The late Donald Dewar was remembered as fondly by his constituents in Glasgow as he was by UK political leaders and royalty. He entered parliament in the mid-1960s as MP for Aberdeen South, but ...
Dewar became known as ‘the father of the nation’, but it wasn’t a term he was keen on himself. “If I wanted to annoy him, I would call him the father of the nation,” laughs David Whitton. “He got quite annoyed about it. But if he wasn’t the father of the nation, he was certainly the architect of the parliament in many ways.”.
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Oct 8, 2020 · A significant and poignant moment in Scotland’s recent history comes up this weekend on Sunday, with the 20 th anniversary of the tragic death of the first ever First Minister Donald Dewar at the age of 63. Donald Dewar was a profoundly decent person, imbued with an older sense of public mission and morality, who often seemed out of kilter ...
