Starts cairn
Stewart, the Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border, starts the Auld Acquaintances Cairn by placing the foundation stone in a field near Gretna on the westernmost edge of the border with England. He hopes that visitors to the site will add stones until the monument is nine feet high. Stewart:
[The debate] has been too much about politicians and celebrities and not enough about giving ordinary people the chance to show how they feel.