Lesley Riddoch looks at Willie Rennie's plans to modernise Holyrood in her latest video column
IN Lesley Riddoch’s latest video column, the writer and campaigner looks at the Scottish LibDem leader’s complaints about Holyrood’s AMS voting system and what they reveal about our country.
The party leader made a call for an STV voting system as part of wider demands to modernise the Scottish Parliament.
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While Willie Rennie’s comment is full of “blatant hypocrisy” given his party’s involvement in devising the Scottish electoral system, is he actually letting the cat out of the bag by admitting change is possible in Scotland, but impossible in England?
Lesley Riddoch explores all that and more below.
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