Here is Mr McConnell's shadow team. And Wendy's back.
The big surprise is who has been left out. So how has Tom McCabe upset the former First Minister? Has he been plotting already?
Among the others excluded are Lord Foulkes, Charlie Gordon and David Whitton, each of whom might have had a claim to front-bench status. I suppose that Malcolm Chisholm, Jackie Baillie and Frank McAveety were non-starters.
Mr McConnell will need to watch his back in future ...
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Not sure about Foulkes, Gordon or Whitton: Foulkes looks like being one of the 'part-timers' that McConnell claims to despise so much (on the day when MSPs were voting on the new Ministers, Foulkes was at the House of Lords); Gordon is clearly not McConnell's biggest fan and all McConnell would do by putting him on the frontbench is give him extra prominence within the Group (unwise). Whitton maybe has a stronger case but he's too closely linked to Labour pre-McConnell to get a favour from the current Leader.
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