Sentences with phrase «scottish labour needs»

Scottish Labour needs a Tom Harris.

«It is clear that Scottish Labour needs the time and space for Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale to lead the rebuilding of our party in Scotland.»

The candidates» faces change but the message is almost always the same — Scottish Labour needs to change and I am the change candidate.

Scottish Labour needs clarity over its key purpose and then needs to find a way of expressing it in language activists can explain and voters can understand.

He added that Scottish Labour needed to «rediscover our vision for the future» and noted that the SNP had appealed to «left, right and centre, winning Conservative heartlands and Labour heartlands».

Not exact matches

There's no need for a re-calibrated Labour Party when the Scottish nationalists have socialism covered (or, more accurately, when the belief that they do endures).

Of course, we will hear much in the hours and days ahead from Scottish Labour about the need to listen and learn and rebuild but with swathes of the party's traditional support having deserted it for both the SNP and the Tories, it's difficult to see how it can start that process.

The British Election Study survey evidence suggests that Scottish Labour MPs will not be saved by incumbency effects or tactical voting, so the party will primarily need to attract a significant number of their former voters back from the SNP.

Scotland needs a strong Scottish Labour Party to stand up for working people.

This is currently a UK rule book issue, but this needs to be looked at as part of a wider review of Scottish Labour's position in relation to the UK party.

In what sense does the UK's relationship with its constituent parts need to be resolved before Scottish Labour could, for instance, argue for EU employment powers to be repatriated to Holyrood?

If Labour had a majority (even a majority dependent on Scottish MPs) it need not fear a defeat from an opposition motion, assuming it could prevent rebellions.

In a vote to set up foundation trusts in the English NHS, Blair's majority was cut to 35 because many English Labour MPs rebelled or failed to vote; Blair needed 67 Scottish and Welsh MPs to push the trusts through.

There were two incidents when loyal Scottish and Welsh Labour MPs were needed to vote through Labour government policies because so many of their English colleagues rebelled.

«We need a Scottish government that will address the needs of Scots, not one that will simply make promises about what will happen after 2016,» Labour candidate Cara Hilton said.

To do that, it needs to answer the question which Scottish Labour has so singularly failed to do (and for which it has paid, and continues to pay, a ferociously heavy price): what is it for?

Earlier in the day, former Scottish Labour minister Andy Kerr had said his party needed to apologise for an «atrocious campaign».

Mr Kerr, who failed to win the Scottish Labour leadership in 2007, said the party in Scotland needed to be independent of the UK organisation.

Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran said this could be the biggest threat to Scottish jobs in more than 20 years and urged the Scottish and UK Governments to «take the action that is needed».

Mr Harris added: «I am raising the possibility - the very slim possibility of my candidacy - because there are ideas that I have that I think the party should at least be debating, because by the time the next Scottish Parliament elections come up in 2016, we need to know what type of party Scottish Labour will be.»»

[citation needed] When Jim Murphy was elected Scottish Labour Party leader in December 2014, Griffin was appointed as Shadow Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages, covering school education, qualifications, science, HM Inspectorate of Education, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and languages.

Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran said the Scottish and UK Governments to «take the action that is needed».

Scottish Labour's community safety spokesman James Kelly said more details were needed about the decision by Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill to free Megrahi last August.

And Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said: «Instead of reforming education to give our young people the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future, Nicola Sturgeon is deciding to drag Scotland back to the arguments of the past.»

Her remarks fueled a fresh spat between Labour and the SNP, after Scottish Labour's Europe spokesman Lewis Macdonald said Minor had meant an independent Scotland would need to join the queue behind the four existing candidates.

Former Labour MP and former Independent MSP Dennis Canavan said the Scottish parliament responds «far more effectively» to the «wishes, needs and aspirations of the people of Scotland».

In a recording of a lecture at Newcastle University, published today, Curtice pointed out that Labour would need a 12.5 % lead over the Conservatives just to get a majority at the next election if support for the Scottish nationalists stayed the same.

Is there any evidence of pre-booked TV studios or as with the comments about expelling the Scottish Labour Party, do we need to take it that evidence of the allegation is irrelevant and we simply go into fantasy land?

The Labour leader, who explained he struck an admiring tone of the Iron Lady in the last fortnight because «it was right to show respect», told the Scottish Labour party conference the UK once more faces the need for the same scale of fundamental reforms achieved by Thatcher — and he is the man to make that change.

In the run up to the 2007 Scottish election, the Labour party had considered not fielding list candidates in the Glasgow, West of Scotland, and Central Scotland regions, [citation needed] as their constituency strength in the previous two elections had resulted in no list MSPs; instead they proposed to support a list composed of Co-operative Party candidates; [citation needed] before this the Co-operative party had chosen not to field candidates of its own but merely to endorse particular Labour candidates.

[60] Attributing the party's losses to its failure to engage with the electorate, she told the programme that Labour needed to speak up for the interests of the Scottish people, and accept more devolved powers for the Scottish Parliament.

Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont challenged Mr Salmond: «You need to invest immediately.

But now, we need to start building the kind of Scottish Labour Party which Scotland deserves and which Scotland needs.»

If it is to return to office in 2020, or perform well in local and Scottish elections next year, Labour needs to develop a clearer narrative on these things.

Labour leader Johann Lamont says the Scottish government does not need to wait until after the referendum to improve support for families.

He also argued that the problems facing Scottish Labour won't just be remedied by electing a new leader but that the party needed radical change to repair its relationship with the people in Scotland.