Scottish Labour needs to be braver
As it trails the SNP in the polls, Anas Sarwar’s party must offer a clearer break with the past 18…
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Can Labour rally in Scotland?
Amid a polling slump, Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar had a mission at party conference: to revive and re-energise.
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When will Labour tell the truth about Scotland?
Chasing the SNP’s spendthrift politics is an irresponsible strategy for a serious party.
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Why Scottish Labour isn’t panicking
The party still believes that incumbency could be the SNP’s undoing at the 2026 election.
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Can Scottish Labour reverse the SNP’s recovery?
Anas Sarwar’s party believes that opinion polls are not the best guide to the real political situation.
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Scottish Labour’s winter fuel move shows its panic
Anas Sarwar is already being forced to distance himself from Keir Starmer’s unpopular government.
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Why the Budget has cheered Scottish Labour
The SNP can no longer claim that little divides Keir Starmer’s government from the Conservatives.
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Can the SNP and Labour learn to work together?
The talk at Holyrood is of greater collaboration across the chamber in a new political era.
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Who’s really winning in Scotland?
A poll putting the SNP ahead has not stopped Scottish Labour increasing its number of target seats to the mid-30s.
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Can Keir Starmer prove the Union works for Scotland?
Labour has made a series of overtures in its manifesto.
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Want to be a Conservative MP? Come to Scotland
Voters anxious about the Union could help save the party from oblivion.
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The SNP’s U-turn on oil and gas is a challenge to Labour
Keir Starmer’s party may look like it has failed to choose Scotland’s side in the energy debate.
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Scottish MPs will be central to a Starmer government
Labour will have to move quickly to prove to Scottish voters that their support matters.
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Can Scottish Labour heal a fractured nation?
Anas Sarwar’s party could usher in a new era of collaborative politics with the Liberal Democrats and others.
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Anas Sarwar: I can’t afford an “unpopular” Labour government
The Scottish Labour leader on why defeating the SNP depends on his party delivering at Westminster.
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Is Anas Sarwar ready?
To justify the hype, Scottish Labour must win around half of the SNP’s seats at the general election.
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Is Labour or the SNP leading in Scotland?
Contradictory polls are explained by different estimates of the scale of defections from the SNP to Scottish Labour.
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What would Scottish Labour do?
As voters look for an alternative, it’s no longer enough for Anas Sarwar’s party to simply talk down the SNP.
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Scotland needs to stop talking and start doing
Scottish Labour should learn from the SNP’s fatal obsession with strategies and consultations.
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Labour takes Rutherglen: the end of SNP domination?
What the result means for the next general election and Scottish independence.
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