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Catherine Vallis Articles

We’re losing the referendum on the EU

While we have been distracted by a three-month long leadership election the ‘Britain Out’ campaign has been gaining momentum. This summer the European Union has been in turmoil. ‘Europe in crisis’ stories have been second only to our own internal drama. Whether it was...

‘You can’t out-Salmond Salmond’

This last week will probably be looked back on as a defining moment in the Scottish Labour party’s history. After last Friday we have dominated news programmes and columns for all the wrong reasons, with the Scottish National party letting us tear us apart without...

Introspection is the last thing we need

The Correx boards have been scrapped, the leaflets curated and Twitter is almost completely rid of twibbons. Now that the referendum is over we face a raft of challenges and opportunities as a party. It is not an exaggeration to say that this vote has ripped families...

A long three years until election day

The swagger and bluster of Scottish politics can sometimes make British politics look like a Jane Austen novel. It was therefore nice to see a sensitive and thoughtful debate break out at recent first minister’s questions when Johann Lamont brought up the case of a...