Johann Lamont, the Centre-Left candidate, has won the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party on the first ballot. Anas Sarwar, a vice-chair of Labour’s right-wing party-within-a-party Progress who only replaced his father as the MP for Glasgow Central last year, has been elected deputy-leader.
Posts Tagged ‘Scottish Labour’
The change we need to win in Scotland
Nov 29th, 2011 by Johann Lamont.Labour needs to change in order to become a party which is fit to serve Scotland. May’s election result was a stark warning from the people of Scotland: lose touch with your values and vision, and you will lose our votes. Scottish Labour needs to rebuild from the ground up – but navel gazing and […]
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Scottish Labour Leadership: nominations open
Oct 31st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Following Scottish Labour’s special conference on Saturday, at which new rules for electing Scotland’s own Labour leader were agreed, nominations open today for the positions of Leader and Deputy Leader. Known candidates for Leader are MSPs Johann Lamont (the current Deputy Leader, a former teacher and housing minister, and on the Left of the party) and […]
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Tom Harris MP – Blairite candidate for Scottish Leader?
Aug 23rd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.There’s an interesting development in the race for Scottish Leader. Tom Harris, Westminster MP and well-known blogger, has put himself forward as a potential candidate for the role of Scottish party leader at Holyrood, saying on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme that he was doing so because of the lack of candidates to emerge […]
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Inverclyde result was a draw. It’ll take more than an Irn-Bru re-branding to turn it round.
Jul 7th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Ed Miliband may be relieved at last week’s by-election result in Inverclyde, but for Labour in Scotland, it was no better than a draw. Labour held the seat with almost the same share as the late David Cairns in what was a good general election result for Labour locally and in Scotland. That’s the good […]
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Why is Scottish Labour under-performing? Too fixated on Westminster?
Apr 21st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.NOW UPDATED The latest You Gov poll for Scotland on Sunday shows that the SNP are favourites to form the next Scottish Government — a dramatic turnaround from only a few weeks ago. It implies that the SNP could govern much more easily as a minority, or form a majority government with any party it […]
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Ed Miliband brings a new commitment to devolution
Oct 29th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.As the Scottish Labour Conference opened in Oban this morning, Ed Miliband brings a new — and genuine — commitment to devolution. If there’s too great an emphasis within Labour on centralisation, it now seems to lie north of the border. Unlike his two predecessors, Miliband says he’s “relaxed” about differences of view between Leaders […]
