The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Willie hopes it won’t be Chariots of Dire...

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HE is no stranger to an election stunt – and yesterday Willie Rennie was, somewhat bizarrely, recreating a famous scene from Chariots of Fire on a beach in St Andrews.

But the 1981 film about Scots runner Eric Liddell is a classic tale of victory against the odds, so it is not hard to see why it appealed to the Scottish Lib Dem leader.

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 ??  ?? SPRINT: Willie Rennie mimicks Ian Charleson, inset, in the 1981 film
SPRINT: Willie Rennie mimicks Ian Charleson, inset, in the 1981 film

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