Kenyon Wright

An Episcopal canon, Wright chaired the executive of the Scottish Constitutional Convention from 1989, which brought Labour, the Liberal Democrats, churches, unions and local councils together (the SNP and Conservatives stayed out) to draft the scheme that became the 1998 Scotland Act. His most quoted line answered a Thatcherite veto: 'What if that other voice we all know so well responds by saying, We say no, and we are the state? Well, we say yes, and we are the people.' The convention's blueprint, including proportional representation, was largely enacted.