May 10th, 2011<\/p>\n
David Cairns<\/strong><\/p>\n On the sad death of David Cairns, the MP for Inverclyde who passed away this week after a short illness, Duncan McNeil said:<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a great shock to everyone and I am deeply saddened to lose such a close personal friend and colleague.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were all very proud of David\u2019s achievements, the local boy from Broomhill Court who went to Notre Dame High School and rose up the ranks to become our MP and a well-regarded government minister.<\/p>\n \u201cSuch was his sharp intellect and wit, he could hold his own in politics at any level and commanded the respect of his political allies and foes alike.<\/p>\n \u201cHe will be remembered locally as a hard-working and committed constituency MP who placed himself at the heart of the community he was born and brought up in.<\/p>\n \u201cOur party members have been on the campaign trail for weeks in the run-up to last week\u2019s election and we were inundated with well-wishers asking after him. David would have been humbled by the response to his ill-health.<\/p>\n \u201cMy last memory of David was on the Saturday before he was taken into hospital at a local party event and he was his usual self, full of humour and stories, playing the role of host by offering drinks and food to everyone and generally enjoying himself with his friends.<\/p>\n \u201cTo lose someone with David\u2019s talent and ability at just 44 is a great tragedy and all our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 10th, 2011 David Cairns On the sad death of David Cairns, the MP for Inverclyde who passed away this week after a short illness, Duncan McNeil said: \u201cThis is a great shock to everyone and I am deeply saddened to lose such a close personal friend and colleague. \u201cWe were all very proud of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}