Speakers have included satirist Armando Iannucci, politicians Tam Dalyell and Sir Menzies Campbell and Rachel Elnaugh of the BBC's Dragons' Den programme.

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Also present were Mr Dewar's official spokesman David Whitton, the Trade Minister Helen Liddell, Labour MP Tam Dalyell and High Court judge and former Lord Advocate Lord Hardie.

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Labour MP Tam Dalyell, whose constituency at the time was West Lothian, wondered how long English MPs would tolerate members from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland exercising an important effect on English politics while they themselves had no say in the matters outside England.

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