Lord Selkirk of Douglas, Edinburgh Tory MP who was a courteous and able politician – obituary
He was deft at piloting Bills, but less good at party knockabout, being accused of ‘floating like a bee and stinging like a butterfly‘
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He was deft at piloting Bills, but less good at party knockabout, being accused of ‘floating like a bee and stinging like a butterfly‘
Lord Selkirk of Douglas, who has died aged 81, was a socially liberal lawyer and aristocrat who was a hard-working Conservative MP for Edinburgh West for 23 years, a Scottish Office minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and finally a front-bench spokesman in the Scottish Parliament.
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