ANYONE who saw David Kerr’s car crash of an interview on Newsnicht last night will be left wondering why he’s ashamed of having been born in Govan.

Pressed on the vexed question of his birthplace, the SNP’s Glasgow North East candidate refused point blank to say where he was born, instead falling back on the weasel words of “there wasn’t a maternity hospital in Dennistoun at the time”. Why didn’t he just say “Govan”?

Pressed further on why he he previously claimed, during the Falkirk by-election, to have been born in Cumberbauld, he said that a big boy done it and ran away (or words to that effect) and that the mistake had been quickly rectified.

Was it? Does that mean that during that particular campaign, a replacement leaflet was produced by Kerr’s campaign stating that he was, in fact, born in Govan? Or Dennistoun? Will he now produce that leaflet?

A nation holds its breath.