The Labour Left in Scotland have won five of the eight places on the Scottish Executive Committee. The successful candidates were Lesley Brennan, Angela Feeney, Ann Henderson, Cara Hilton and Stephen Low. Commiserations to Robert Foster and Angela Moohan who missed out.

Campaign for Socialism is an autonomous left faction formed in 1994, originally to defend Clause 4. It holds the Momentum franchise in Scotland, branding itself as ‘Campaign for Socialism – Momentum Scotland’, and its candidates are strongly pro-Corbyn. Its achievement of 5 out of the 8 CLP places on the Scottish Executive Committee is an important one, more so when set in context-at the previous round of elections, it did not win a single place. The results are doubly significant because they represent a defeat for Kezia Dugdale, whose stranglehold on the SEC is now much weaker.  Continue reading →