Politics

In a letter to the First Minister, Ben Macpherson MSP for Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith, today resigned as Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education. 

On this page, we will publish responses from candidates who, for whatever reason, were unable to answer questions or have answers read out at the Spurtle's General Election hustings on 24 June. See our summary here.

There were many other questions for which there was no time on the night. All candidates have been invited to answer these, although we recognise that some may be too busy at this stage in their campaigns to do so.

What the candidates said and how they fared

A LESSON FOR OUR TIMES

A PARTIAL ACCOUNT

‘More like Just a Minute than University Challenge’ was how chair Carol Nimmo proposed Wednesday’s hustings for the City Centre ward should proceed. She presumably wanted candidates to avoid hesitation, repetition, or deviation and warned any who weren't succinct that they faced being dinged by the merciless Spurtle Bell.

Following high-profile controversies in Westminster last month, Spurtle decided to check closer to home on what our politicians earn outwith the forums to which they were elected.

The following summaries have been compiled on the basis of publicly accessible records in the public domain.

We found nothing that gave us serious cause for concern.

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Spurtle’s hustings for the Edinburgh Northern & Leith constituency took place last night, with numbers attending the Zoom event never dropping below 72 (including 6 organisers) and probably exceeding that on shared devices.