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There was, of course, as much scrutiny of her appearance as of what she had to say. It was different with the Scottish Parliament, she says. Cunningham became one of 14 politicians with dual mandates, including then-first minister Donald Dewar and Jim Wallace of the LibDems. They entered a cross-party agreement to exit Westminster at the next general election and while some have repeated the practice since — Alex Salmond has held a dual mandate three times — Cunningham is against it.

Responsibility for these issues was often attributed to the new MSPs themselves, though the decisions had been taken before their election. It was criticism about decisions made before the parliament even came into being, before any of us had had a chance to express an opinion. You run the risk of sounding conspiracist but it just looked too concerted and widespread to be anything else.

Most people were pretty bewildered.

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An entire generation has reached adulthood knowing nothing but devolution and recognising Edinburgh as a key centre for national governance. The vast numbers of people who began to pour in started to change the way people saw it, the parliament itself has become linked into the public consciousness. We are still in the process of its development.