Editing Donald Dewar (section)

==Out of parliament==
Dewar spent much of the 1970s looking for another parliamentary seat. He hosted a Friday evening talk show on [[Radio Clyde]], and in June 1971 was beaten by [[Dennis Canavan]] when he applied for the seat of [[West Stirlingshire]]. He worked as a solicitor for much of that decade and became a reporter on children's panels and was involved with the Lanarkshire local authority. Dewar became a partner in Ross Harper Murphy, in 1975.