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My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Johann Lamont

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Johann Lamont
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: July 11
Politician
Schoolteacher
Glasgow
Scotland
Johann MacDougall Lamont
Fighting
Crusades
Scottish
Inequality
Labour
Injustice
Poverty
Fight
Party
Crusade

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