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Kevin Stewart MSP: “Exclusion from voting hypocritical”

February 1, 2012 - 4:13 pm

Kevin Stewart MSP, Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Aberdeen Central and supporter of Votes at 16 (he supported the campaign with a motion in the Scottish Parliament last year) has shared his thoughts on the need …

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