Call for portrait of Ewing in Commons

A portrait of former SNP MP Winnie Ewing should be hung in the House of Commons, MPS have heard.

The SNP’S Hannah Bardell said it would be a “fitting tribute” to Mrs Ewing, as part of plans for the suffrage centenary. Mrs Ewing was elected as an MP in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in 1967 in what had been seen as a safe Labour seat, setting in motion the rise of a party then considered marginal in Scottish politics.

After her election, she declared: “Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.”