Joani Reid: “Most of us in East Kilbride want the same simple thing: to get on with our lives and feel safe in our own streets.”

I am also deeply grateful to everyone who has stood by me when it was politically easier to distance themselves. You know who you are – thank you.

I have never been part of a police investigation, as a suspect or as a witness, and I am pleased that this has now been recognised.

He is a decent man. And a kind man.

Joe understands that because he has never been absorbed into the Holyrood bubble.