 | 'Jack McConnell was frozen out of the Scottish hierarchy after his downfall as general secretary last year, when Chancellor Gordon Brown imposed direct rule on Delta House. Wendy Alexander, Donald Dewar's special adviser, was a leading figure in the Brownite 'Operation No Divorce' and might reasonably have expected to get a better job than pariah McConnell. But it was not to be. Suddenly, Wendy is left going cap in hand to Jack for cash for her housing schemes. McConnell is suddenly the Chancellor's best boy, trusted with holding the keys to the Scottish Treasury, no less.' Iain MacWhirter in the Herald, 19 th May 1999. |  |
