Jackie Baillie is understood to be the first sitting MSP at Holyrood to either be knighted or given a damehood honourslist
Jackie Baillie has told how she was “humbled” to be made a dame in the King’s first Birthday Honours.
With recipients of honours sworn to secrecy about their awards ahead of the honours list being made public, the Labour politician told just two people about the award – her daughter and the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar. The 59-year-old is one of only three MSPs at Holyrood who have represented the same constituency for the lifetime of the Parliament – the others being former deputy first minister John Swinney, and the SNP’s Fergus Ewing.
Top news stories today “I hated the fact the C.diff at the Vale of Leven hospital damaged so many of my constituents and so many of them lost their lives as a result,” Dame Jackie said. “It was my job to make sure that I relentlessly pursued a public inquiry for them, against the then health minister Nicola Sturgeon.
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