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The struggle for the soul of Scottish Labour
As the Scottish Labour Party prepares to elect its depute leader, Conrad Landin looks at the prevailing opinions and political implications of the choice
DECISION TIME (Left to right) Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with newly elected Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard and candidate for depute Lesley Laird MP
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The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
SPRING fever is gripping the SNP. By the time Scotland’s governing party announces its new depute leader in June, the three candidates will have squared off in at least 10 hustings events.
Meanwhile, Scottish Labour has set a timetable to elect its own number two that stretches even further ahead. Voting will not close until the end of August, under the timetable agreed by Labour’s Scottish executive committee (SEC).
But despite this, Richard Leonard looks increasingly likely to have a deputy in post before Nicola Sturgeon. Because in the four days since Scottish Labour’s election timetable was published, support has been building around just one candidate — interim deputy leader Lesley Laird, who is Labour’s shadow Scotland secretary at Westminster.
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