Speaking to the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland on Tuesday, the 35‑year‑old said it was on her mind that her three‑year‑old daughter would start school during the next parliamentary term.

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She said: "You either face the prospect of waving goodbye on a Monday morning and returning home on a Friday night every week for five years, or you move the whole family down to Edinburgh , and that was not something I was willing to do.

"I do not think it is fair on everybody in my family. I have three stepdaughters, I have a husband who has a job, and so when you outline it like that over recess, it is a di

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