Thanks to Brian Monteith for reminding me that public health minister Anna Soubry was once a member of the SDP.
She left the Conservative party in the Eighties before rejoining the Tories after 2001.
A former Forest spokesman and a member of the Scottish Parliament from 1999-2006, Brian has a weekly column in the Scotsman. Today he writes:
More stigma on the way for smokers (Scotsman)