Independent-minded Scottish politician and campaigner for the right to assisted suicide
Margo MacDonald, who has died aged 70, was one of the biggest personalities in Scottish politics over the past four decades, distinguished by the warmth of her humanity and the patent integrity of her opinions.
Originally a Scottish National party MP and its most charismatic representative, she was later spurned by the party hierarchy and became one of the few Independents to buck the system by being returned three times to Holyrood as a regional MSP for the Lothian region.
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