The player'ssick leave wasprocessedasaLabour accident, given that the stroke took placeas the player was practicing hisprofession as a football player.
The danger of this happening will become acute on December 21st, when a Scottish businessman, Andrew Cubie, is due, at Mr Dewar's request, to publish a report about the future of university tuition fees, a subject which accident as much as design has elevated into a difference of high principle between Labour and the Lib Dems.