Her work included: transplant and trauma surgery, before going on to lead nursing surgical teams and provide specialist clinical education.

[5] In 2019 she downplayed the issues around creating a new currency in an independent Scotland to a BBC audience, remarking that her recent holiday to Mexico demonstrated that, "plastic translates anywhere where you are"; she then claimed Scottish issued bank notes were currently being exchanged for more than English ones on the foreign exchange markets, which indicated that (in the future) "Our Scottish pounds have the propensity to be really really strong".

"[10] Her party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, disavowed the remarks and claimed: "I've not seen Emma's comments directly but nobody in the SNP wants to see a border between Scotland and England.

"[10] In an opinion piece for The Scotsman, former Labour MP Brian Wilson remarked of the controversy: "First, in the real world, Scotland does more trade with Yorkshire than with China.

Second, Ms Harper is a star in the SNP firmament, placed top of their regional list and a racing cert to return to Holyrood.