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UK Labour leader Keir Starmer (left) and Scottish Labour's Anas Sarwar at a campaign event on Friday

'Whatever I say will be what Anas Sarwar says', Keir Starmer tells Scottish media

(L-R) Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Labour leader Keir Stamer, Labour by-election candidate Michael Shanks

It matters we win in Scotland to have the mandate, says Keir Starmer

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Cameron Eadie is the Scottish Greens' candidate in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 'The 2014 referendum sparked a new political generation. I'm representing it'

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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves previously said 'private schools are not charities'

Labour in U-turn on pledge to drop charitable status for private schools

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Ken Loach has not been impressed with Keir Starmer's leadership

'I have NO trust in Starmer': Ken Loach in brutal assessment of Labour

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Labour leader Keir Starmer has said he will honour the oil and gas licences granted by the Tories

Keir Starmer confirms Labour will honour Tories' approval of Rosebank oil field

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Katy Loudon called out Thomas Kerr's 'cheek' during a clash on Scotland Tonight

Katy Loudon calls out Tory by-election candidate's 'cheek' in Scotland Tonight clash

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Keir Starmer's Labour have been criticised after reports said they would seek to stamp out debates on policies such as Brexit

Labour bid 'to block debates on Brexit and two-child cap at conference'

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File photograph of former prime minister Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown in challenge to Keir Starmer over backing Tory benefit policies

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Ben Macpherson (centre) challenged Keir Starmer (left) to support benefit reform

EXCLUSIVE SNP challenge Labour to support benefit reform following Gordon Brown comments

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a Q&A session with sixth formers

LETTERS It’s pretty hard to figure out just what the fudge Starmer stands for

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Paul Laverty, who grew up in Dumfriesshire, with I, Daniel Blake director Ken Loach

Top Scottish screenwriter aims blistering criticism at Keir Starmer's Labour

Unison's Johanna Baxter pictured in Edinburgh in 2022

EXCLUSIVE Questions for strike union official as Labour and Unionist links revealed

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Keir Starmer has been accused of 'bluff and bluster' over his Brexit policy

Keir Starmer 'rejects' plans for 'Macron's onion' to bring UK closer to EU

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Keir Starmer has performed yet another U-turn, with a policy document suggesting he won't ban all zero-hour contracts

Labour panned for dumping pledge to ban zero-hour contracts

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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer do not offer a route forward

COMMENT New poll went under radar but reveals a truth about Broken Britain

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Labour will be forced to U-turn on strategy after recent polling

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Labour will be forced to U-turn on strategy after downturn in new poll

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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves

'Not a mandate': Labour dismiss SNP independence strategy plan

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Who is leading Labour?

newsletter I wonder why comparisons between Keir Starmer and Tony Blair are stacking up?

General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress Paul Nowak holds up sign calling to protect the right to strike

EXCLUSIVE SNP trade unionists hail 'historic' TUC shift on devolving employment law

Keir Starmer refused to be drawn on whether Labour would commit to the triple lock

Keir Starmer REFUSES to say if he'll keep pension triple lock

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Labour peer George Roberson has a new role

Labour peer takes over as Dundee University chancellor

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Rayner is now defending Labour's refusal to renationalise water, energy or rail

Letters I cheered Angela Rayner’s 'scum' rant but now feel betrayed by Labour

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Keir Starmer told students that because of the country's finances it would be impossible to get rid of tuition fees

Keir Starmer tells students abolishing tuition fees is 'impossible'

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Keir Starmer pictured at a school in London on Monday

THE JOUKER Keir Starmer compared to Phil Collins after weird photoshoot

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Angela Rayner makes a heart shape with her hands following a speech at the TUC conference in Liverpool

Angela Rayner BLANKS demands to devolve employment powers to Scotland

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Angela Rayner said renationalising industries was as ideologically driven as Liz Truss's mini-budger

Angela Rayner compares renationalisation of industries to Liz Truss's mini-budget

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Labour's candidate for East Lothian accuses the SNP of wearing the toxic badge of identity politics

Letters Douglas Alexander’s sermon on the state of Scotland is regurgitated drivel

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Keir Starmer failed to address the concerns of Sharon Graham

Keir Starmer responds as union chief slams '90s tribute act' Labour

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a

comment Kirsty Strickland: Is Rishi Sunak's pre-election pledge a promise or a threat?

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, with Angela Rayner (left) and Rachel Reeves, arriving with his shadow cabinet in central London for their first meeting

comment Ruth Wishart: SNP must marshal their forces and end this Labour resurgence

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Do they really prefer to be ruled by a right-wing government in Westminster to one with socialist principles in Edinburgh?

Letters Unionism of Labour in Scotland is difficult to understand

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Scotland’s relationship with Labour was deep-rooted and I feared it could at some point flower again

COMMENT Labour’s resurgence is not just bad news for the SNP, it’s bad news for Scotland

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The public were found to support Jeremy Corbyn’s policies when pollsters did not mention his name

Letters What sort of politics deliberately allows the electorate no hope?

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Scottish Labour's Anas Sarwar (left) and First Minister and SNP leader Humza Yousaf

Scottish Labour catch up to equal SNP vote share in new Westminster poll

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Lindsay Hoyle wasn't happy with the choice of language

SNP MP told off for calling Labour and Tories 'two cheeks of same arse'

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The senior MP is now shadow minister for creative industries and digital

Head of sleaze watchdog Chris Bryant joins Labour frontbench

Will a vision of positive change be clearly articulated to make the indy vote secure?

Letters A general offer of ‘change’ won’t be enough for this General Election

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Keir Starmer announced a reshuffle of the shadow cabinet

What the Labour shadow cabinet have said about Scotland and independence

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Education Secretary Gillian Keegan (left) leaves 10 Downing Street alongside Home Secretary Suella Braverman

COMMENT Wee Ginger Dug: Why won't anybody think of the Tories? The true victims in all this

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From left: Labour's Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer, and the SNP's Katy Loudon and Stephen Flynn campaigning in Rutherglen

New Rutherglen by-election candidate pledges to 'only take average worker's salary'

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer are at odds with public opinion over nationalisation

EXCLUSIVE Even Tory voters back public ownership of water and electricity, huge poll finds

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Dr Rosena Allin-Khan called out Keir Starmer's approach to mental health

MP quits Labour shadow cabinet with swipe at Keir Starmer

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Last year Starmer was photographed with WASPI campaigners pledging that he supported the 'fair and fast compensation' for 1950s women

Keir Starmer urged to clarify position on compensating WASPI women

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Labour's Angela Rayner has been given a new role in the shadow cabinet

Angela Rayner appointed as shadow deputy prime minister amid Labour reshuffle

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Lord Foulkes plans to challenge the Scottish Government's spending on overseas offices

Lord Foulkes to challenge Scottish Government spending abroad

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Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with former US President Ronald Reagan

Senior US Republican endorses Labour's economic plans as 'very Reaganesque'

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UK Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to Scottish Labour's Anas Sarwar during a campaign event

'Capitulating' Anas Sarwar U-turns on calls for 'greater devolution'

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From left: SNP ministers Jamie Hepburn, Humza Yousaf, and Shona Robison with a paper on independence

SNP hit back after Labour peer calls Scottish Government 'elected dictatorship'

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From left: Labour's Anas Sarwar, leader Keir Starmer, and Michael Shanks

THE JOUKER Scottish Labour activist's anti-Brexit board links to 'Euro sex' website

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Professor Richard Murphy argues against a wealth tax

COMMENT Richard Murphy: Why the UK should NOT bring in a wealth tax

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Labour’s shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds received a Glastonbury tickets package

Labour figures accept thousands in gifts from Google DAYS before digital tax U-turn

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George Foulkes previously said the idea of an equal Union was a 'myth'

Labour peer to 'intensify' bid to stop Scottish Government spending on independence

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You can ask Richard Murphy about what a wealth tax could do and how

Q&A Q&A: Submit questions to economist Richard Murphy about wealth tax amid Labour U-turn

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