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Tom Harris Articles

The king hereafter?

The choice of the next leader of the Scottish Labour party will be vital to Labour’s hopes of winning power not just in Scotland but across Britain as a whole. Thinking merely tactically, there is the simple point that if the Scottish National party wins seats from...

Scottish leadership race gets into full swing

The process of electing a leader of the Scottish Labour Party is now in full swing, with all three candidates having launched their campaigns. Ken Macintosh, the MSP for Eastwood, had been touted in the media as the frontrunner. However, as the contest progresses,...

Who cares?

The Scottish Labour party still has nothing remotely interesting or relevant to say The question on every Scottish Labour party member’s lips is: ‘Who will be our next leader?’ Unfortunately, the answer on the lips of everyone else in Scotland is: ‘Who cares?’ This is...

The fix is in

Ahh, the noble work of constitutional reform, ushering in a golden age of responsive, hard-working MPs representing balanced, fairly drawn constituencies. But all is not as it seems. Rather than a new dawn for democracy, redrawing constituency boundaries mostly means...