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Last month, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy announced that he would seek to amend Clause IV of the party's constitution, in a similar move to Tony Blair's rewriting of UK Labour's Clause IV twenty years ago. Today, Scottish Labour's…
This morning we reported that new leader of Scottish Labour Jim Murphy was planning a reshuffle of his Shadow Cabinet, with every single portfolio changing hands in order to give the party a fresh start. There is a 50/50 gender split of…
A new poll has found the SNP has a 34 point lead over Labour. The poll conducted by Ipsos MORI for STV News asked 1,026 adults eligible to vote in Scotland how they intended to vote in the Holyrood elections, if there were to be a vote…
A YouGov poll today has found that Labour are ahead of the SNP in the constituency voting intentions for Holyrood - the first time since the start of this year. The figures, published today, shows that when it comes to Holyrood voting…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Scottish Labour MPs could have the chance to be elected the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, under proposals put forward to reform the Scottish Party by Jim Murphy and Sarah Boyack - but they must…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk According to the BBC: Mr Harris said he still hoped a senior MP such as Jim Murphy or Douglas Alexander would stand as a candidate. But he said he would be interested in competing for the post "if the…
By James Mills / @jamesmills1984 A political hero of mine is the great late Donald Dewar, who once said "Cynicism, together with unrealistic expectation, are the two great bugbears of politics." These are words that ring in my ears after…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk As Political Scrapbook has reported, Tory MSP Bill Aitken has now stood down as Convenor of the Justice Committee on the Scottish Parliament after his outrageous reaction to a gang rape in a newspaper…
By Peter Thomson The Scottish population is the same as the Greater London area (6.8 million) spread over an area of approximately a third of the main island of Britain. The country has excess resources in re-usable energy and on current…
