This year's Lord High Commissioner, the Queen's representative at the General Assembly, is Lord Wilson of Tillyorn.
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The Lord High Commissioner went on to say that in last year's census, 65% of respondents had described themselves as Christian, with 42% claiming to belong to the Church of Scotland and 16% to be Roman Catholics.
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Ex-Labour cabinet minister and EU commissionerLord Mandelson has acknowledged that voices calling for the UK to retain and extend its influence in the EU have been "relatively muted and relatively less well-organised" than their opponents.
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