THREE articles in The National on the misfortunes of the Labour party during its showpiece conference weekend, yet the relics in its Scottish branch still cling to hopes of leading a UK-wide revival.
Ian Murray’s appeal to Scots to re-engage with Westminster politics shows that he still hasn’t got even a vague idea of why Scotland recently elected an overall majority of pro-independence MSPs to Holyrood.
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The reports of Anas Sarwar saying that they had pretended that they had a functioning Labour party in Scotland to get through an election, along with Sir Keir Starmer ditching Labour’s commitment to nationalisation of public services and Angela Rayner saying nasty things about the nice Tories are unlikely to kick-start a revival of the UK Labour Party’s fortunes, let alone those of its Scottish branch.
John Jamieson
South Queensferry
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