Labour MSP stands down

SCOTTISH Labour managers were last night looking for a new candidate to fight Dundee West next year after Kate Maclean, the sitting MSP, announced she was standing down from Holyrood.

By The Newsroom

Published 21st Jun 2006, 01:00 BST

Ms Maclean had already been selected to fight the seat she has represented since 1999, but in a letter to party members she said she had had "a change of heart".

Ms Maclean won the seat with a majority of just 1,000 in 2003 and the Nationalists will now feel they have a good chance of taking the seat from Labour.