Rangers Soccer Membership marked the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its basis with a bash on the coronary heart of the UK Authorities final week.
Scottish Secretary Alister Jack made a brief speech on the occasion which was held within the plush environment of Dover Home in Whitehall.
The Grade I-listed neoclassical mansion is the official headquarters of the Scotland Workplace and is only a stone's throw from Downing Avenue.
The Document understands Gers legends Ally McCoist and Terry Butcher have been amongst these on the guestlist.
The occasion was paid for and organised by the Ibrox membership as a part of its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
A UK Authorities spokesperson mentioned: "Rangers Soccer Membership held an occasion in Dover Home final week to mark their one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Scottish Secretary Alister Jack attended the occasion and made a brief speech.
"The reception was organised and paid for by the soccer membership."
In a press release launched earlier than the occasion on June 8, Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson mentioned: "We're very honoured and grateful to have been invited by the Secretary of State for Scotland to this very particular occasion to mark the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Rangers Soccer Membership.
“I consider it speaks volumes for the contribution Rangers has made to our nation in a constructive sense over these years that the membership is being recognised on this method, and we sit up for selling the nice title of Rangers even additional this night to invited company from throughout the political spectrum, in addition to wider society.”
The SNP has beforehand accused the Scotland Workplace of changing into a "Tory propaganda unit" in December after spending on communications on the Whitehall division soared because the 2014 independence referendum.
The UK Authorities has sought to counter what it views as a Nationalist-dominated Scottish Parliament by beefing up the workplace of the Secretary of State for Scotland - a task which was as soon as thought of semi-redundant within the devolution period.
A brand new seven-storey workplace constructing was opened in Edinburgh final yr to behave as a brand new "hub" for Westminster operations north of the Border, bringing collectively almost 3,000 civil servants from 11 UK Authorities.
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