Anas Sarwar: ‘A seismic shift is underway – Scots won’t settle for the status quo’
2023 will always be remembered as the year when a seismic shift in Scottish and UK politics began.…
Scotland
Full list of 150 battleground target seats that could be key to a Labour majority
New analysis has revealed 150 of the seats Labour would have come closest to winning in 2019 had…
‘Despair at the Tories explains huge poll leads – but Labour can’t rely on it’
If you listen to some commentators, you’d think Labour are now destined to be the largest party in…
‘We’re drowning here’: Nottingham, the latest Labour council facing the abyss
Another week, another reminder of the grim local government legacy Labour may inherit as another council issues a…
Starmer plugs green plan in Aberdeen to relieve job fears – and forget rebellion
Keir Starmer is in Scotland today on an energy policy push – surely hoping to move the conversation…
Baillie dubs SNP ‘politics of the past’ after Scottish Labour poll breakthrough
What’s in a poll? Scottish Labour figures will likely have been rubbing their eyes at the results of…
Murray Elder obituary by Gordon Brown: ‘He made us radical but credible’
In his famous essay, Homage to Tom Maguire, the historian EP Thompson wrote in praise of heroes who…
‘Yousaf’s independence gamble is ill-advised – but potentially his only option’
It was only last June that the SNP promised “there will be an independence referendum on Thursday 19th…
CLP committee quit en masse over “shut down debate” on Gaza
Nine members of the Glasgow Kelvin Constituency Labour Party executive have resigned, including a Labour peer, accusing the…
‘Taking SNP seats alone won’t fix unease over the union – in Scotland or England’
Labour’s stunning victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election opens the door to many more Scottish Labour…
