Member

One of Jim Wallace’s favourite anecdotes was about when he came to see me to resign as Deputy First Minister in 2005. He told me very solemnly. We had planned the meeting and booked it in the diary 24 hours in advance, and I had worried overnight about what he was going to tell me. When he told me he was resigning as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, my response was, “Thank God for that”. He was very surprised by that response, until I told him that I had thought he was seriously ill and was going to tell me something much worse than the fact that he was going to spend more time with his family.