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Duncan-Glancy backed the UK Government’s decision to introduce means-testing for the Winter Fuel Payment, voting in the Scottish Parliament against calls to reverse the decision.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=How every MSP voted as Holyrood rejected the UK’s Winter Fuel Payment cut |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/24639083.winter-fuel-payment-cuts-full-list-labour-msps-oppose/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=The National |language=en}}</ref>
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Duncan-Glancy backed the UK Government’s decision to introduce means-testing for the Winter Fuel Payment, voting in the Scottish Parliament against calls to reverse the decision.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=How every MSP voted as Holyrood rejected the UK’s Winter Fuel Payment cut |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/24639083.winter-fuel-payment-cuts-full-list-labour-msps-oppose/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=The National |language=en}}</ref>
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== Friendship with Sex Offender ==
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On 5 December 2025 Duncan-Glancy resigned as Scottish Labour’s spokesperson for Education and Skills after it was revealed that she had continued to maintain a close personal friendship with [[Sean Morton]], a former Labour councillor who had pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/scottish-labour-education-spokeswoman-quits-36358285|title=Scottish Labour education spokeswoman quits over friendship with convicted sex offender|last=Hutcheon|first=Paul|date=5 December 2025|work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]|access-date=6 December 2025}}</ref> She subsequently announced she would not seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5q1xd21w3o|title=Pam Duncan-Glancy: Labour MSP to quit Holyrood over links to sex offender|date=21 December 2025|website=BBC News}}</ref>
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On 5 December 2025 Duncan-Glancy resigned as Scottish Labour’s spokesperson for Education and Skills after it was revealed that she had continued to maintain a close personal friendship with [[Sean Morton]], a former Labour councillor who had pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/scottish-labour-education-spokeswoman-quits-36358285|title=Scottish Labour education spokeswoman quits over friendship with convicted sex offender|last=Hutcheon|first=Paul|date=5 December 2025|work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]|access-date=6 December 2025}}</ref> She subsequently announced she would not seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5q1xd21w3o|title=Pam Duncan-Glancy: Labour MSP to quit Holyrood over links to sex offender|date=21 December 2025|website=BBC News}}</ref>
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