Five Years On, and Jack Is Flying High First Minister Reaches Anniversary . . . First Minister Reaches Anniversary . . . But Admits His Vision for Glasgow Is Still a Work in Progress

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FIVE years ago today, Jack McConnell became Scotland's First Minister and gave his first interview to the Evening Times.

Wewere sitting in a rundown concrete office block where MSPs and Ministers were housed while arguments continued over the new Scottish Parliament building.

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Five Years On, and Jack Is Flying High First Minister Reaches Anniversary . . . First Minister Reaches Anniversary . . . But Admits His Vision for Glasgow Is Still a Work in Progress

Five years on, we are sitting in the plush drawing room of the First Minister's official residence, Bute House in Edinburgh. Although the location has improved, the subject remains the same: Glasgow, "an engine that drives Scotland forward", as he said then, and ...

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