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In 2015, long before we’d ever heard of the “red wall”, Labour was wiped out in Scotland. Losing my seat in Glasgow East and then watching my colleagues and their staff lose their jobs was heart-breaking. For a few weeks before, we knew…
The final TV debate tonight will be unique, for lack of a better word. Only one of the five people taking part is a candidate for Prime Minister. And in many ways that fact makes the Labour case for us. Of all the opposition parties…
We are only on day two of the formal General Election campaign, but already we have learned a lot about the choice facing the people of Scotland on 7 May. Let’s start with Labour’s positive offer. We have a plan to make Scotland the fairest…
Today’s revelations from UK Government papers released under the thirty year rule confirm what many people across Scotland have suspected since the 1980s – that the Tories used Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax. What is more…
If Labour is elected in May, we'll abolish the bedroom tax. You can't have a clearer pledge than that. But this weekend we've seen that, for the SNP, the bedroom tax is about politics, not principles. Yesterday, the inner workings of the…
In a matter of days, Nicola Sturgeon will become Scotland's fifth First Minister. She will take on responsibility for a £30bn budget, for heading a Government that has control over Scotland's public services and soon the Scottish Government…
There are just seventeen days to go until Scots vote in the independence referendum, and many people are already voting by post. Two years of work is about to culminate in two weeks of all out campaigning for every last vote. And in these…
Today we mark two significant anniversaries: the twentieth anniversary of John Smith’s death and the fifteenth anniversary of the first meeting of the Scottish Parliament. John Smith was a giant of the Labour Party. And that wasn’t just…
As the referendum debate in Scotland picks up pace, there is an increased focus on how women will vote. So far, it would seem that women in Scotland are steadfastly resisting Salmond's overtures. It's no surprise, given that his central…
Last night, to mark one year to go until Scotland’s referendum, I participated in a Newsnight debate on the banks of the Tweed, the river which marks the border between Scotland and England. The venue was in sight of the Union Bridge, which…
The fight to keep Scotland as part of the United Kingdom is a battle of both the heart and the head. That’s why today’s publication from the UK Government is so important as we start to take this debate beyond vision and values into the…
Rarely does Parliament stop to consider issues as fundamental as the future composition of our country, but this afternoon in the House of Commons that is exactly what MPs are being asked to do. The title of this afternoon’s debate – on the…
