Why the Budget has cheered Scottish Labour
The SNP can no longer claim that little divides Keir Starmer’s government from the Conservatives.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
The SNP can no longer claim that little divides Keir Starmer’s government from the Conservatives.
ByThe talk at Holyrood is of greater collaboration across the chamber in a new political era.
ByA poll putting the SNP ahead has not stopped Scottish Labour increasing its number of target seats to the mid-30s.
ByLabour has made a series of overtures in its manifesto.
ByVoters anxious about the Union could help save the party from oblivion.
ByKeir Starmer’s party may look like it has failed to choose Scotland’s side in the energy debate.
ByLabour will have to move quickly to prove to Scottish voters that their support matters.
ByAnas Sarwar’s party could usher in a new era of collaborative politics with the Liberal Democrats and others.
ByThe Scottish Labour leader on why defeating the SNP depends on his party delivering at Westminster.
ByTo justify the hype, Scottish Labour must win around half of the SNP’s seats at the general election.
ByContradictory polls are explained by different estimates of the scale of defections from the SNP to Scottish Labour.
ByAs voters look for an alternative, it’s no longer enough for Anas Sarwar’s party to simply talk down the SNP.
ByScottish Labour should learn from the SNP’s fatal obsession with strategies and consultations.
ByWhat the result means for the next general election and Scottish independence.
The party’s victory in the Rutherglen & Hamilton West by-election is a turning point.
ByAnas Sarwar is looking to exploit SNP weakness on the economy.
ByAnas Sarwar can position himself as the alternative to the SNP’s legacy of half-baked, over-budget policies.
ByLabour’s refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap is a test of the Scottish party’s independence.
ByFor some Scots, a Starmer government will be their last shot at making the UK work.
ByIf Sturgeon places anything above Scottish independence, it is her personal integrity.
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