Sentences with phrase «scottish labour movement»
Scotland, with the lowest Tory vote in the UK, will become an immense thorn in Blair's side because the Scottish Assembly will create an independent base of political activity for the Scottish labour movement.
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Recent political events such as the energy around the Scottish referendum and indeed the surprise people - movement that secured Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership election indicate that discontent with stale managerial politics is spreading.
The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.
Scottish National party and WEP activists are also involved in the new movement, which has been endorsed by Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, and the Norwich South MP and possible Labour leadership contender, Clive Lewis.
And he said that in many ways Scottish Labour was the «least modernised part of the Labour movement» and that he wanted his successor to be elected under a one member, one vote system.
The task for the Scottish Labour Party going forward is to work together to rebuild our movement and regain the trust of the people of Scotland.»
Defiant Corbyn - who missed his swearing in at the Privy Council last year to go on a walking holiday in the Scottish Highlands - insisted yesterday the Labour «social movement» he is building would give him the keys to Number 10.
[94] Lamont told Scottish Labour's 2012 annual conference she wanted her party's campaign to be one of «collective leadership» against independence, [95] a strategy which she envisaged would become a cross-party movement arguing the case for keeping Scotland in the UK.