It's just not fair...

You really can't blame Mr McConnell. It was just bad timing. Unlucky really.

It all got overtaken by the news from Northern Ireland. As a result, neither the telly nor the broadsheets gave the No 10 deal the prominence it deserved; nor did the No 10 website. It was left to the faithful Daily Record to report:

McConnell and the PM teamed up to stress the benefits Labour can deliver with the party in power in Westminster and Holyrood.
They promised fresh action on skills, jobs, health, crime and cutting red tape in a document on "building Scotland not breaking up Britain".

Instead, the abiding memory of the First Minister's trip to London will be supplied by this report in The Herald:

Patricia Hewitt, Health Secretary, appeared not to know who Scotland's First Minister was yesterday, marring a Labour event intended to show how Westminster and Holyrood were working together.
On STV, she extolled the virtues of the smoking ban in Scotland but came unstuck when she repeatedly referred to the First Minister as "Jack McDonald".

See what I mean? Some days, you just can't win...


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