Labour Kirsty: I was raised by the SNP

Poverty campaigner McNeill to run in election

- ANDREW QUINN

ONE of Scottish Labour's rising stars has revealed she was "raised by the SNP".

Former Gordon Brown adviser Kirsty McNeill is hoping to oust the SNP in Midlothian at the general election. The Save the Children executive director has been tipped for a future government job even though she is not yet an MP.

But unlike most other Scottish Labour candidates, much of her childhood was spent at SNP meetings.