Eight weeks later, Labour easily retained a Westminster seat at the Inverclyde by-election, suggesting that Scottish Labour's disappointing performance in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election would not necessarily translate into support for its political opponents in other elections. The leaders of Holyroods five largest parties. Over the years, he established what is now the Standard Chartered Bank. The 2019 general election was Labour's worst result nationally in 84 years, with their lowest share of the vote recorded in Scotland since the December 1910 general election. I voted Labour in every election from 1983 to 2010. Alex Rowley Julie MacDougall Craig Miller Chris Kane Ryan Smart Ewan Dillon North East Scotland Michael Marra Mercedes Villalba Barry Black Lynn Thomson Richard McCready Georgia Strachan Kaamal Bola Heather Herbert Owen Wright South Scotland Colin Smyth Carol Mochan Martin Whitfield Claudia Beamish Kevin McGregor West Scotland Jackie. CategoryLeaders of Scottish Labour. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known by his pseudonym, Hugh MacDiarmid, was one of the pillars of the 20th-century Scottish literary renaissance. Award-winning Scottish journalist and broadcaster Gavin Esler is best known for presenting BBC programs such as Dateline London, The Film Review, and Hardtalk. [70] Ian Murray (Edinburgh South) was the only MP re-elected. He was deputy head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) from 1919 to 1942. On election day itself, the party managed to improve on its 2015 result and received 27% of the Scottish vote in a surprisingly good night for the party nationwide, and picked up 6 seats from the SNP in traditionally Labour areas such as Coatbridge, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, and Rutherglen, bringing its Scottish number of seats to 7. Dewar died only a year later on 11 October 2000. Until the Murphy and Boyack review in 2011, the office was Leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament and restricted to members of the Scottish Parliament. It seemed at one point, like McConnell, that Gray would become a Labour First Minister, with his party ascendant in the polls for much of the time against Salmond's minority SNP administration. [72] On 16 May 2015, Murphy resigned as leader effective 13 June 2015. By this time the partys structure in the nation was complex with constitu. Send a Message. It was a rancorous campaign and Mr Sarwar faced criticism over his children attending a fee-paying school in Glasgow, with questions also raised over his family's cash-and-carry firm advertising jobs that paid less than the "real" living wage of 8.45 an hour. As accomplished, high-profile female leaders step back from their careers, I wonder whether any woman can have it all Business Insider - Marguerite Ward 18h As an ambitious woman in her early 30s, I find it painful to see some of my female role models step away from high-profile positions. [40] Additionally, Brown's spokesman said: "The prime minister has always been confident of the strength of the argument in favour of the Union and believes a referendum on Scottish independence would be defeated. Adam McVey and Cammy Day Fife Council Largest group. What's he waiting for? On 17 December 2011, Johann Lamont MSP was elected as leader and Anas Sarwar MP was elected as her deputy. In the final weeks of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election that lead was cut down and eventually reversed, and his party lost a swathe of seats as the SNP took a Holyrood majority for the first and only time. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer (Peter Byrne/PA) (PA Wire) Who will Keir Starmer get to run for Labour in Islington North? 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Nicola Sturgeon is a Scottish politician. Lamont had, by party standards, a fairly lengthy time in the leader's office, serving a respectable two years and ten months. Posted: Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Following the war, he focused on combating racism in colonial Africa and even formed a foundation for animal conservation. [109], Ian Murray MP for Edinburgh South since 2010. SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT As part of Transforming Scotland's Economy, we will be joined by The Scottish Government's Ivan McKee and the UK government's Lord [8] At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, the party lost 13 of its 37 seats, becoming the third-largest party after being surpassed by the Scottish Conservatives. Until the Murphy and Boyack review in 2011, the office was Leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament and restricted to members of the Scottish Parliament. In 2014 I discovered that I am a typical voter in Scotland ( "The undoing of Nicola Sturgeon", 24 February). Asked whether "in principle" there should be a referendum on independence, 30% agreed and 57% disagreed. [31] The SNP also lost seats, though other pro-independence parties made gains. r/LabourUK Join 7 days ago Labour leads by 27%, the largest lead for Labour since Sunak became PM. Labour Party Rule Book 2019 [pdf]: includes leadership election rules and procedures for selecting candidates. [67][68] He also said that he planned to defeat the SNP in 2016, and would use the increased powers being devolved to Holyrood to end poverty and inequality. Backlash as SNP block media from leadership hustings. [62] The SNP had a surge in membership[63] and gained a wide lead over Labour in the opinion polls. The road outside the Russian Embassy in Kensington were painted with yellow and blue colours to mimic the Ukrainian flag. It's what a leader of the opposition is meant to say. List of leaders since 1999 Donald Dewar 19992000 1st First Minister of Scotland died in office Henry McLeish 20002001 2nd First Minister of Scotland resigned Jack McConnell 20012007 3rd First Minister of Scotland lost Scottish Parliament election. Union leaders met with the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, recently for the first discussion since the strikes earlier this month. Mr Leonard won the race, becoming the first Scottish Labour leader to come from the left of the party. [64][65], On 24 October 2014, Johann Lamont announced her resignation as leader. Clement Attlee, 1950. [48], A few months later, Labour won the Glenrothes by-election in Fife. Between 1905 and 1912, he served as the Secretary of State for War and was instrumental in implementing a series of reforms of the British Army called The Haldane Reforms. He was stung by a couple of campaign blunders, including trying to hide from protesters in a Subway shop in Glasgow and a bizarre dispute with Salmond over which leader ran away from the other when they visited the same supermarket in Ardrossan. McLeish resigned later that year amid a scandal involving allegations that he sub-let part of his tax-subsidised Westminster constituency office without it having been registered in the register of interests kept in the Parliamentary office, an affair which the press called Officegate. From 2011 to 2019, he had served as the deputy leader of the party. FM Nicola Sturgeon says NHS funding has doubled, and frontline spending is 10% higher than in England. Meet our team in the Scottish Parliament. He later headed the British Overseas Airways Corporation, too. But she was to resign after the referendum with an explosive statement accusing UK Labour HQ of treating the party in Scotland as a "branch office" and calling for more autonomy. Last updated at 5pm on February 27th. All rights reserved. The SNP were the largest group just four seats short of an overall majority. We're on the side of the Scots, and hope they'll join us so we can build the future together. By comparison the SNP has been led by Alex Salmond twice John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon while the Tories have had David McLetchie Annabel Goldie and Ruth Davidson. Council Leader Cllr Jenny Laing. Below is the list of Labour target seats for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. Since his death, Wallace has been viewed as an iconic figure whose story of bravery and valor has inspired several works of art, including the Academy Award-winning film Braveheart. Most would agree that the people who have broken something are rarely the best people to fix it, and I don't believe the current government is capable of providing the leadership Britain requires. He successfully led his country against England in the First War of Scottish Independence. Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland 20152016 and since 2020. By this time, the party's structure in the nation was complex, with constituency parties, and branches of affiliated parties, but no co-ordination at the national level. [79], On 29 August 2017, Dugdale resigned as leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Humza Yousaf's Aug 21 recovery plan was 'more about spin than substance'. She had already been deputy leader and leader at Holyrood during MPJim Murphy's tenure, which ended with Labour losing all of its Scottish seats at Westminster bar one. [59], In July 2012, a member of Scottish Labour started Labour for Independence, a rebel group of Labour supporters who back Yes Scotland in the campaign for Scottish independence. Comments. He tendered his resignation to the Queen. He said speculation about his leadership had become a distraction, just four. To do that we need new ideas and new thinking. Alexander also boldly suggested she would be willing to support a referendum on Scottish independence with the words: "Bring it on." Hope is returning to Scotland, with Anas Sarwar paving the way for Scottish Labour to lead the nation past nationalist politics, into a new era full of promise for Scotland. Meet Anas Leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Labour led the SNP in the polls for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election until the campaign began in March, at which point support for the SNP rallied. The party currently holds one[7] of 59 Scottish seats in the UK House of Commons, with Ian Murray having represented Edinburgh South continuously since 2010. Thomas Sutherland was a British politician and banker best remembered for founding The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), the founder member of HSBC Group. [74][75] On 1 November 2015, Scottish Labour Party delegates backed a vote to scrap the UK's Trident nuclear missile system. In his time as First Minister, he was an early backer of Glasgow's Commonwealth Games bid and oversaw the ban on smoking in public places, making Scotland the first place in the UK to implement the policy. Politicians and journalists have hit out at the SNP after the party decided to keep the media out of hustings that will determine its new leader and [69] Many senior party figures were unseated, including Murphy himself (East Renfrewshire), Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) and Shadow Scotland Secretary Margaret Curran (Glasgow East).
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