Hamilton Holyrood by-election: ‘Why Reform’s rise in Scotland shouldn’t surprise anyone’
Lauren Gilmour on the curious rise in popularity of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in Scotland.
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‘How Scottish Labour smashed the election – and can repeat it at Holyrood’
Waiting for Labour’s comeback in Scotland was like waiting on a football team other than Celtic to win the Scottish Premier League. Predictable and boring. But last week, Scottish politics was realigned. Scotland returned 37 Labour MPs to…
Edinburgh endgame: The seat where SNP defeat would signal Labour majority
Edinburgh has been Scottish Labour’s shining beacon of light over the last decade, hosting the party’s one remaining MP, Ian Murray, following the party’s 2015 and 2019 near-wipeout. If polls from recent weeks and months are accurate, the…
‘This election, apathy is Labour’s biggest obstacle to victory in Scotland’
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Post-match report: IDS versus Work and Pensions Committee
I’m a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee and, for some time, we’ve been trying to question Iain Duncan Smith over his misuse of benefits statistics to generate stories about so-called scroungers and mask the failings of his…
Hypocritical David Cameron is standing up for the wrong people
Last night Labour MPs marched through the lobbies of the House of Commons to vote in favour of a freeze in families' energy bills only to be defeated by Conservative and Lib Dem MPs who voted against. Labour wants to see bills frozen while…
HS2 is still the only answer
Contrary to yesterday's headlines, Ed Balls actually said in his speech that Labour 'continue to back the idea of a new North-South rail link'. Let us be clear - it's HS2 that he's talking about. The decision to refer to it as a North-South…