Lord Russell Johnston


saltire shieldWinnie Ewing: Shocking betrayal by the Liberals. Unbelieveable almost because they were meant to be the Home Rule party. So they're just another Unionist party like the others. In a way, worse, because they professed to be a Home Rule party. So it was really a set of constant betrayals and a lot of them would like to forget that little chapter.
Russell Johnston: I can't really remember what the reason was. I can't remember exactly now I must confess. I would need to refresh my memory. I'm sure I wrote notes about it at the time.
Winnie Ewing: We'll never forget and we'll never trust them. I mean, they are a party of Britain and I don't know where they're going in Scotland because they don't really seem to want what they say they want. I think they like it 'down there''.
How the Liberals helped sabotage the devolution bill of the 1970s in Parcel of Rogues, Channel Four Television, April 1998.
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Liberal Scottish Representative

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Russell JohnstonWestminster Parliamentary Career
Liberal MP for Inverness 1964 - 1983
Lib Dem MP for Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber 1983 - 1997
European Parliamentary Career
Liberal Representative in the European Assembly 1973 - 1975 and 1976 - 7 June 1979
House of Lords Career
Lord Russell Johnston (Liberal Democrat Peer) 1997 - 2008


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