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Scottish Labour (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba [6]), [7] is the part of the UK Labour Party active in Scotland. Ideologically social democratic and unionist, it holds 22 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 37 of 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It is represented by 266 of the 1,226 local councillors across ...
In 2016, Smyth was elected to the Scottish Parliament, as an additional member representing the South Scotland region. [7] He served as Scottish Labour Spokesperson for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity under Richard Leonard from 2017 to 2021. [8] Smyth nominated Anas Sarwar in the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership election. [9]
Origins and evolution of Scottish Labour. In August 1888, after contesting the Mid Lanarkshire by-election, Keir Hardie co-founded with Liberal MP Robert Cunninghame-Graham the Scottish Labour Party (1888) with the support of the Scottish Miners' Federation, local trade unions, the Dundee Radical Association, the Scottish Home Rule Association, Crofters Party MPs, and the Scottish Land ...
Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray speaking during the Scottish Labour conference at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in 2022 (Andrew Milligan/PA Wire) A spokesperson for the Scotland Office said: “That ...
Ian Murray said a Labour-run Scotland Office would use ‘co-operation instead of conflict’ to deliver for Scots. Labour vows to ‘work constructively’ with Scottish Government if in office ...
Pauline Mary McNeill (born 12 September 1962) is a Scottish Labour politician serving as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region. She previously represented the Glasgow Kelvin constituency. Having represented her constituency since the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, she was not re-elected in 2011.
The document will make the pitch for a Labour government at Westminster including proposals to increase the living wage for what the party estimates would be 200,000 people – up to 40,000 of ...
Monica Lennon (née Ward; born 7 January 1981) is a Scottish politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2016. A member of the Scottish Labour Party, she has served in various roles on the Scottish Labour front bench. She was the Scottish Labour Spokesperson for Health and Sport ...