Labour candidate Kirsty McNeill was 'raised by the SNP' but plans to win Midlothian for Keir Starmer
dailyrecord.co.ukOne of Scottish Labour's rising stars has revealed that she was "raised by the SNP".Former Gordon Brown adviser Kirsty McNeill is hoping to oust the SNP in Midlothian at the general election later this year.The Save the Children executive director has been tipped for a future government job even though she is not yet an MP.But unlike most other Scottish Labour candidates, much of her childhood was spent at SNP meetings.She told the Daily Record: "It's actually quite surprising that I'm running to be a Labour MP."I'm not from a Labour family.
I don't just mean that my family were Yes supporters, although they enthusiastically were."I mean they are lifelong SNP members, activists.
Everyone that I call auntie who is not my actual auntie is from the SNP."I was raised by the SNP, all of my earliest memories are being plonked under tables at meetings and being told to fold leaflets, being sent to race nights, to staff tombola stands."McNeill said that Labour's focus on social class, rather than independence, is what drew her to the party.She said: "My childhood was very involved in the SNP organisationally and structurally.
It was only when I was a teenager that I realised that we disagree about something really important."The thing that was pulling at my heart...
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