itemprop=description content=THE Labour Party conference has kicked off in Liverpool, following hot on the heels of the Conservatives’ disastrous get-together in Manchester…
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at a rally following Scottish Labour's win in Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-electionParty conference has kicked off in Liverpool, following hot on the heels of the Conservatives’ disastrous get-together in Manchester that would have left Enoch Powell blushing.
Whatever the intent, it certainly sounds more akin to a diktat from on high than a promise of mutual agreement – a note for Sarwar and the rest of Scottish Labour to remember their place in the pecking order.have deemed this to be another power grab – and given the nature of previous interventions from the Westminster government, it would be difficult to classify it as anything else.
Now they seem intent on bringing Scotland to heel through the same mechanism as their potential predecessors. Boldly, Murray wishes to frame the Conservative Party’s overstepping into devolved territory as simply a means to pick a fight with the SNP – as if, in contrast, their own decisions to eschew the democratic wishes of Scotland’s electorate are exempt from the same criticisms.
Labour have not been “the party of devolution” for quite some time now. Like with all that used to make Labour great, it has been discarded. Now pretence of anything else has joined the policy in the scrap heap.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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