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Blair McDougall Articles

Leonard’s three big challenges

Scottish Labour should be unambiguously pro-union and anti-hard Brexit, argues Blair McDougall After a bruising, unexpected and unnecessary leadership contest Scottish Labour’s new leader Richard Leonard will have the whole party behind him as he faces three big...

Stop apologising

Scottish Labour stopped the unthinkable austerity and calamity of leaving the union. The new leader must remember how, and why, to win again in Scotland, argues Blair McDougall “Again!!??’ That was the message I got from a friend in London when yet another leader of...

Fight your own campaign

Scottish lessons for the general election and a referendum on Europe When the Scottish National party won a second term in 2011, Alex Salmond said that independence was ‘as near to inevitability as anything can be in politics’. After a decisive ‘No’ vote and Salmond’s...

Bloodless revolution

With Scotland’s vote on independence one year away, Blair McDougall finds the nationalist strategy stalled Next September Scotland will be asked to make a choice. Do we want to remain a strong part of the United Kingdom, or do we want to make a leap into the unknown...