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Christine Jardine

Christine Jardine

Christine Jardine is the Scottish Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West

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The use of blood donations from American prisoners and drug addicts in the UK saw some patients contract HIV and hepatitis in the 1970s and 1980s (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Wait for justice over infected blood scandal should not have been so long

A Bosnian woman cries over the newly dug graves of her two sons at a cemetery near Srebrenica in 2010, 15 years after nearly 8,000 Muslims were murdered (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Dangers posed by racism and prejudice are being overlooked – Christine Jardine

A Bosnian woman cries over the newly dug graves of her two sons at a cemetery near Srebrenica in 2010, 15 years after nearly 8,000 Muslims were murdered (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Dangers posed by racism and prejudice are being overlooked – Christine Jardine

Jacinda Ardern holds her daughter Neve during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit at the United Nations in 2018 (Picture: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)

Ardern earned place on world stage and she could yet return – Christine Jardine

People at risk of a heart attack or stroke are going to bed worrying whether the NHS will be there for them (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Tories and SNP are failing the NHS as crisis deepens – Christine Jardine

King Charles III delivers his first Christmas broadcast in the Quire of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (Picture: Victoria Jones/pool/Getty Images)

New Carolean Age must kickstart the fightback against our current troubles

The wife and the mother of Oleg Skybyk, a Ukrainian soldier killed resisting the Russian invasion, decorate a Christmas tree on his grave (Picture: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP via Getty Images)

Year of chaos, horror and hard times underlines importance of family and friends

Scotland is paying the price for repeated mismanagement by SNP governments (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

On the SNP's 16th Christmas, they just gave Scotland a lump of coal

Many nurses are concerned about the NHS's ability to look after its patients' needs (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

We've reached a crucial point in NHS history. We cannot let it die

Doddie Weir attended the match between Scotland and New Zealand at Murrayfield on November 13 (Picture: David Rogers/Getty Images)

Doddie Weir played key role in changing government's stance on medical research

Scottish politicians must not be reduced to the flag-waving and meaningless slogans of Donald Trump (Picture: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Christine Jardine: Politicians must not turn my Trump nightmare into reality

The winds of political change look set to blow the Conservative party out of power (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The Conservatives are on their way out. And they know it – Christine Jardine

Members of the BBC's children's department watch a demonstration of a model box for the programme Toy Town in 1930 (Picture: Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Christine Jardine: BBC has been a friend for 100 years. May it long continue

Liz Truss leaves Downing Street on Friday last week following her resignation the previous day (Picture: James Manning/PA)

Will Truss’s successor manage to prevent the downfall of the UK economy?

The outpouring of support for Ukraine after Russia's invasion must not diminish amid political turmoil and the cost-of-living crisis (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)

Refugees in UK need to be treated with respect, not kept in limbo

Protesters take to the streets of Iran's capital Tehran following the death of Mahsa Amini in 'morality police' custody (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

UK ministers' response to Iran’s crackdown on women-led protests has been woeful

Liz Truss is due to address the Conservative party conference on Wednesday (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Why Tory meltdown poses big questions for opposition parties – Christine Jardine

Have Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng come up with a magical formula that had escaped their predecessors in Downing Street? (Picture: Dylan Martinez/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Christine Jardine: Chancellor failed to address winter of worry facing millions

Members of the military salute the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland, as it passes the war memorial in Ballater on the journey from Balmoral to Edinburgh (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

In mourning our Queen, UK's four nations have been united – Christine Jardine

The winner of the Conservative party leadership contest is set to be formally announced today (Picture: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Will new PM save us from coming storm or watch as economy is wrecked?

Joyous events like the Edinburgh Festival Fringe can help us through the darkest of times (Picture: Scott Campbell/Getty Images)

Three reasons why I'm singing 'Here Comes the Sun' – Christine Jardine MP

Now is not the time for another divisive referendum on Scottish independence (Picture: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images)

SNP just cannot see that, amid multiple crises, unity is better than division

Queen Elizabeth has been the only head of state many people in the UK have known (Picture: Jacob King-WPA pool/Getty Images)

Ahead of Queen’s Jubilee, I have just one thing to say – Christine Jardine MP

Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney and their Cabinet colleagues seem only to offer ineptitude and empty promises (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

SNP's rhetoric will not mask their multiple failings forever – Christine Jardine

Loyalists clash with police during a protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol in Belfast in November (Picture: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Johnson is putting Northern Ireland peace process in peril – Christine Jardine

Boris Johnson has failed to act over the growing cost-of-living crisis (Picture: Daniel Leal/PA)

The electorate’s message to Boris Johnson is loud and clear – Christine Jardine

Politics, in its purest form is about helping people (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Council elections are a chance to elect politicians who will actually listen

Refugees fleeing Ukraine may struggle to find sanctuary in the UK because of Home Office red tape and delays (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian refugees' struggles to get visas are sign of UK's broken government

Winston Churchill became Prime Minister during the Second World War, but some Conservatives argue Russia's invasion of Ukraine means Boris Johnson must stay (Picture: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tories must ditch Johnson for the good of party and country – Christine Jardine

Chancellor Rishi Sunak's response to the cost of living crisis has left him looking out of touch (Picture: House of Commons/PA)

Historic cost of living crisis is going to affect us all – Christine Jardine MP

Nicola Sturgeon's handling of the Covid pandemic is to come under scrutiny (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

As Covid inquiry looms, Nicola Sturgeon has reasons to be anxious

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe makes pizza with her seven-year-old daughter Gabriella (Picture: PA)

A small blue flower will always remind me of Nazanin's plight in Iran