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6 June 2017updated 02 Sep 2021 10:17am

Can Jo Swinson win back East Dunbartonshire for the Lib Dems?

A former Liberal Democrat prodigy tries to reverse the Scottish National Party's gains. 

By James millar

Back at Jo Swinson’s campaign HQ, after a soggy couple of hours on the doorsteps of East Dunbartonshire, there is one question that has to be asked: just how big was the school she went to?

At every door we knocked, either the respondent or their offspring seems to have been at school with the former equalities minister.

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