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By Campbell Gunn
Alex Cole-Hamilton is widely tipped as next leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats (Photo: PA)
As a youngster, I was the only one of my friends with any interest in politics. It must have been instilled in me at an early age, as I recall my father and my grandfather – his father – arguing politics in the run-up to various elections.
My father was a committed socialist, a Labour Party supporter. My grandfather, from Caithness, argued the Liberal corner.
Perhaps it was a generational thing. In my grandfather’s youth the Liberals were the real progressive, social democratic party, while my father grew up in a time of anti-fascism, pushing those opposed to Hitler and Mussolini further to the left. ....

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