Derek Stillie retired from football in 2008 A FORMER professional goalkeeper will be seeking to secure a spot in the starting line-up at Holyrood after being confirmed as the Conservative candidate for Renfrewshire South ahead of May’s election. Derek Stillie – who played for Aberdeen, Dundee United and Dunfermline Athletic during his career – will be looking to take the seat from SNP incumbent Tom Arthur, who is running to retain his place for a second term. Following his retirement from football in 2008, the Irvine man pursued a career as a lawyer but has been aiming to secure a switch to politics since 2019, when he ran as the Tory candidate for Central Ayrshire in the snap general election.
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Mr Neil skewered independence activist and former SNP MP George Kerevan after he appeared to suggest a link between indyref2 campaign struggles to the Apartheid, American civil rights and British colonial oppression. Mr Kerevan posted pictures on Twitter of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Michael Gove has said that the Tories are involved in constitutional renovation work MICHAEL Gove has signalled that the UK Government will be looking at ways to “modernise” the UK constitution after Brexit. The Cabinet Office minister’s words will further stoke fears that Westminster is planning to “demolish devolution”, following as they do from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s stronger hints at constitutional change late last month. Gove’s talk of constitutional “renovation” did not go as far as Rees-Mogg in saying that Labour’s constitutional “tinkering” must be undone. The Conservative leader of the House of Commons previously said that Tony Blair’s government’s constitutional changes had “weakened our parliament and helped to divide the United Kingdom”, and added that he hopes “that this government finds an effective way of restoring our constitution to its proper form”.