Labour MSP Helen Eadie passes away

The Scottish labour Party has been reacting today to the sad news that Helen Eadie MSP passed away this morning. She was 66. Eadie was only recently campaigning for Labour in the recent Holyrood by-election in Dunfermline before being diagnosed with cancer on October 24th. Two days ago it was reported that she had been moved to a hospice at Queen Margaret Hospital where she was conducting her parliamentary business from the hospital bed.

Eadie has been an MSP since 1999, firstly first for Dunfermline East and then for Cowdenbeath.

In response to the news of Eadie’s passing, Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said:

“Helen was a politician of tremendous passion and commitment. She was her own woman who didn’t fit the political stereotype. Perhaps that’s why some underestimated her, but her difference was why she was admired by the people of her constituency. She will be missed by many and will be remembered across her constituency in standing up for their needs and concerns. My thoughts and those of the whole Scottish Labour movement will be with Helen’s family at this difficult time.”