Ash Regan's prostitution blunder
To Scotland, where once Britain's greatest schools were found. These days, sadly, that can no longer be said, thanks to the SNP's mismanagement over the past 18 years in office. One of those who served as a minister in its wretched regime was Ash Regan, who held the Scottish Government's Community Safety brief from 2018 to 2022. Having failed to win the party leadership in 2023, she now sits as an MSP in the Alex Salmond fan club that is the Alba party.
Her latest Holyrood initiative is to restart the debate on prostitution north of the border. Regan is championing a new 'Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill' which aims to criminalise the buying of sex in Scotland while decriminalising those selling sexual services. The 51-year-old is in the midst of a big publicity push for her Bill. But it seems she has now come unstuck in her latest interview with
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