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Alastair Campbell was central to the media image of New Labour. Once New Labour was established, it was developed as a brand, portrayed as a departure from Old Labour, the party of pre-1994 [33] which had been criticised for regularly betraying its election promises and was linked with trade unionism, the state and benefit claimants.
The Conservatives tried to negotiate a coalition with the Liberal Party but failed and Edward Heath's government resigned. Labour came to power in March 1974, its leader Harold Wilson having accepted the royal invitation to form a minority government. Wilson called a second election for October 1974, which gave Labour a majority of three MPs.
The Labour government held that the Act's requirements had not been met, and that devolution would therefore not be introduced for Scotland. In the wake of the referendum the disappointed supporters of the bill conducted a protest campaign under the slogan "Scotland said 'yes '", officially launched in a Glasgow hotel on 7 March 1979. [5]
In the Building a New Scotland series of papers, published to support the argument for independence in a proposed second independence referendum, the Scottish Government advocates that "independence would mark a new phase in the evolution of Scotland’s relationships with the UK and Ireland. While the ‘social union’ of shared histories ...
Despite the huge byelection victory, Labour still has a big task ahead to become the biggest force north of the border once again. The SNP has 44 UK parliamentary seats in Scotland. Labour only ...
His comments came after Labour had its most successful election in Scotland since the 2014 independence referendum, with the general election seeing the party win 37 seats north of the border.
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In the New Statesman, Douglas Alexander, then Shadow Foreign Secretary and Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, who lost his seat in 2015 to the SNP, wrote that the title of the book was 'outdated', citing the 2012 Scottish local elections as evidence of a Labour recovery. He did however note ...