Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I uru a Skene ki te Rōpū Kaimahi, ā, kāore i angitu i Kinross me West Perthshire i ngā pōtitanga whānui o Hui-tanguru me Oketopa 1974, ā, i mahi ia ki te Rōpū Whakahaere o te Rōpū. I te tau 1976, ko ia tetahi o nga kaiwhakaara o te Scottish Labour Party (SLP), he wehenga mai i te Rōpū Mahi. I tuhia e ia he pepa mo te kaupapa here whenua tuawhenua mo te roopu, a ko ia te hēkeretari o te kaupapa "Ae mo Scotland" i te raki i te wa o te pakanga.
Te pōtitanga o te whakakorenga o Scotland i te 1979. Heoi, i mua tata o te pooti, ka uru atu ia ki te Rōpū Liberal. I kōwhiria ia ki Perth me Kinross Kaunihera District rite te kaunihera Independent mo Blair Atholl ko Kinloch Rannoch i 1980.