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Phil Gallie; Politician and Engineer

PHIL Gallie, who has died suddenly aged 71, was one of that rare breed, an authentically working-class Scottish Tory.

Indeed, few of his contemporaries could have boasted a CV which included work as an electrical fitter and power station manager, and Mr Gallie was as unpretentious as that track record implied.