A committee of MSPs was set up in early 2008, which decided broadly to shadow what Westminster did. Its report was debated in less than half an hour in June 2008 by five MSPs who chummily commended its “reasonable and affordable” ideas. Their recommendations became the 2009 SPP Act, which MSPs passed unanimously in January that year. Four months later, the Westminster expenses scandal exploded. Thanks to a massive data leak to the Telegraph, MPs’ perks provoked a national outcry. Cash-filled soft landings were no longer the done thing. A new era had arrived. But not at Holyrood. While Westminster changed its pay-off system, Holyrood kept its intact, as if nothing was amiss. And it has stayed that way while change has taken place in Wales and Northern Ireland too.
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Shamed former SNP finance boss Derek Mackay in new love with Polish male model
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Derek Mackay with his new model boyfriend (Image: Daily Record)
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