Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I uru a Skene ki te Rōpū Mahi, a, kaore i angitu i Kinross me West Perthshire i nga pooti whanui o Hui-tanguru me Oketopa 1974, a, i mahi ia i te Kaiwhakahaere o te roopu. 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 kaitiaki o te kaupapa "Ae mo Scotland" i te raki i te tau 1979 i te pooti pooti pooti a Scotland
He aha? 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.