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In a few days’ time Scotland can elect MPs who will work every day to improve the lives of working class Scots or we can elect MPs who will work every day for a second referendum. Scotland has a choice between two roads. The road to a…
Scotland badly needs change. We can’t wait any longer for it. In 100 days we will have the opportunity to vote for that change. Scottish Labour will fight the General Election promising change that only we can deliver. A mansion tax on…
This is an exciting time to be in Scottish politics. Never has our great nation had more confidence in itself or more hope about the future. With the delivery of the devolution Vow on more powers for the Scottish Parliament, change is…
Why do so many of us go canvassing and door-knocking in the rain? Or give up evenings and weekends for the Labour Party when we could be anywhere else. There’s always a candidate to support or a campaign to be won. But ultimately it’s about…
It's barely three weeks since the independence referendum. But after conference season and two by-elections it already feels a half a lifetime ago. But there are lessons from that campaign against Scottish nationalism that we must not…
Lunchtime yesterday, eleven days on from the Scottish referendum, I found myself back on a street corner talking politics. And although the break-up of the UK wasn’t on people’s lips, some of the issues in the centre of Middleton were the…
Every football fan has got a favourite football strip. That kit your team wore when they won the Cup, or the first game you went to, the season you got promoted, or the first year you had a season ticket. I’ve got more football tops than…
This morning I took a break from my tour of 100 street meetings to travel to London to vote again on the Bedroom Tax. An unfair policy that applied across the whole of the UK is another reminder that poverty and injustice are blind to…
Less than a month to go until Scotland's referendum and I'm now sixty meetings into my 100 open air street meetings across Scotland. I marked the halfway point in Glasgow city centre's Buchanan Street. Hundreds of people joined in. The City…
Under 500 days from their deadline, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have changed the world, but there’s much more to do. Traditionally over the summer when Parliament is in recess there's often a 'silly season' when trivia can…
Recent polling now has the Labour backed Better Together campaign winning amongst working class voters. That may surprise some people but it’s what I've always argued would happen. Working class voters instinctively feel and know that it is…
Alex Salmond went into this week’s debate with a reputation as a charismatic favourite. A bit like Brazil in this year’s World Cup he was playing at home in front of a passionate crowd. Most people, himself included, expected a fluent and…
