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saltire shield'Gordon has installed in the Scottish Office a clutch of ministers who seem determined to pursue a petty-minded and punitive campaign against Scots for the crime of voting SNP. The threats to cut off council tax benefits and to overrule the Scottish Parliament's power to introduce a local income tax were as offensive as they were politically inept.'
Iain Macwhirter in the Herald, 14 th April 2008.
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The Government of Scotland

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Dover House, Home of the Scotland Office

The Scotland Office, 28 th June 2007 -

Labour Government under Rt Hon Dr James Gordon Brown in UK
(Scottish National Party Government under Rt Hon Alex Salmond in Scotland)
Date Secretary of State for Defence & Scotland Minister of State
28 June 2007
New administration
Rt Hon Desmond Browne MP Father David Cairns MP1
Douglas Alexander David Cairns
At Prime Minister's Question Time on the 4 th July 2007, the Rt Hon Dr Gordon Brown MP (Labour, Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath) stated that the Rt Hon Des Browne (Labour, Kilmarnock & Loudoun) works full time as Secretary of State for Defence and is merely a figurehead as Secretary of State for Scotland. The Scotland Office is actually run on a day to day basis by Minister of State Father David Cairns MP (Labour, Inverclyde).

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