Details: Iain McWhirter

Iain Macwhirter is the award-winning political columnist for the Sunday Herald and the Herald. He is also a political broadcaster of twenty years standing, in Westminster and Holyrood. Iain joined the BBC from Edinburgh University, becoming Scottish Political Correspondent in 1987. In 1989 he moved to Westminster where he was a member of the Parliamentary Lobby for ten years. In that time he presented programmes like "Westminster Live" on BBC 2 and wrote political commentaries for the Observer and the Scotsman. In 1999 he returned to Scotland to launch the Sunday Herald and present the 'Holyrood' television programmes on BBC Scotland. He lives in Edinburgh and walks the hills.
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13-02-2008 (1.67 MB)

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