SCOTLAND: ACTOR SEAN CONNERY LENDS HIS SUPPORT TO THE CAMPAIGN BY THE SCOTLAND NATIONAL PARTY FOR AN INDEPENDENT SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

Record ID: 347269

  • Title: SCOTLAND: ACTOR SEAN CONNERY LENDS HIS SUPPORT TO THE CAMPAIGN BY THE SCOTLAND NATIONAL PARTY FOR AN INDEPENDENT SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
  • Date: 26th April 1999
  • Summary: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (APRIL 26, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. SLV ACTOR SEAN CONNERY ARRIVING AT EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, WITH ALEX SALMOND, LEADER OF SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY 0.25 2. MCU OF CONNERY GREETING SUPPORTERS 0.31 3. SV CONNERY STANDING WITH SALMOND AND WINNIE EWING, MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 0.51 4. S
  • Embargoed: 11th May 1999 13:00
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  • Location: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA5PY3YN6DOD0WLEBEGFR210ABP
  • Story Text: Actor Sean Connery has lent his support to the campaign
    by the Scottish National Party (SNP) for an independent Scottish
    parliament.

    Connery arrived at the Edinburgh international
    conference centre on Monday (April 26) to deliver a speech to
    500 supporters of Scottish devolution.He was accompanied by
    the leader of the SNP Alex Salmond, and Scottish MEP, Winnie Ewing.

    Long a supporter of an independent Scotland, Connery said
    a new Scottish Assembly must succeed.

    "We are about to have our own parliament; if it is to
    succeed it has to be democratic and all of the voices of all
    of the parties must be heard.We have waited nearly three
    hundred years; my hope is that it will evolve with dignity and
    integrity and that it will truly reflect the new voice of
    Scotland.If I was asked who do you think will win this
    election, my answer would be, hopefully, Scotland ", the
    former Bond actor said.

    Connery donates 40,000 pounds a year to the funds of the
    Scottish National Party, but denied that his rapturously
    received speech had been written by them.

    The actor, who lives abroad for tax reasons, arrived in
    Scotland a few days earlier to promote his new film "Entrapment".


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