Daniel Johnson is articulate and assured. He describes himself as a shopkeeper, and told us he runs the Paper Tiger and Studio One chain of shops.
But although you might think that would make him more suited to being a member of the Conservative party, he has supported Labour for almost 20 years.
He admits he has big set of shoes to fill with Ian Murray MP representing this area for Westminster.
I have real world experience and am not a career politician. I am the sort of person who likes to roll my sleeves up and get things done.
The biggest thing for me is to reconnect politics and people again. In the big noise from the SNP during the last few years I think that has been lost. During my campaign I have run Big Idea Events which are listening events. If I am elected I will keep doing that every single year, publishing the priorities that people tell me about and telling people how I will pursue them in parliament.
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