It also lost most of their constituency seats, although its share of the constituency vote declined by less than 1%. The return of Alex Salmond to the SNP leadership buoyed the party, and after eight years in power, Labour lost to the SNP in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election by the slimmest of margins - one seat. [81] Jackie Baillie took over as acting leader until the conclusion of the leadership election. Labour entered government by forming a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up-front tuition fees for university students as the price for a coalition deal. Robert the Bruce (1274 - 1329) Born north of Girvan in Ayrshire. 1:30 pm CST. McLeish's time as First Ministerwas embroiled in scandal after it emerged he received 36,000 from sub-letting his constituency office in Fife during his time as an MP. In his short year in the role, McLeish took on numerous official trips, memorably going to meet the Pope and also visiting the United States. Remembered as the key architect of the devolution settlement, he helped produce the Scotland Act upon which Holyrood would be based. [64][65], On 24 October 2014, Johann Lamont announced her resignation as leader. William Wallace was a Scottish knight who played an important role in the First War of Scottish Independence. 2. [23] This was later renamed as the Scottish Council of the Labour Party, then in 1994 as the "Scottish Labour Party".[22]. Labour had a notional loss of 5 seats and an actual loss of 15. . Meet our team in the Scottish Parliament. The party currently holds one[7] of 59 Scottish seats in the UK House of Commons, with Ian Murray having represented Edinburgh South continuously since 2010. Hear from Anas Join our movement Why join Scottish Labour? Comments. An explorer at heart, Alexander Burnes joined the East India Company army at 16. Mr Sarwar took an active role in the pro-Union campaign leading up to the 2014 independence referendum, touring Scotland in a bus with No activists. Thanks to his popularity, James is often depicted in historical novels, plays, and short stories. Read about our approach to external linking. The Scottish Labour Party will place third-party cookies on your computer to help us make this website better. She. I'm ambitious for our party because I'm ambitious for our country". However, this allowed it to devote significant time to the question of Scottish devolution. Then came the Better Together campaign in 2014 and I was repelled, not just by the campaign, but by the Labour Party's role in it. But she was to resign after the referendum with an explosive statement accusing UK Labour HQ of treating the party in Scotland as a "branch office" and calling for more autonomy. BBC Scotland News Richard Leonard has stepped down as Scottish Labour leader after three years in the post. Members of a Labour front-bencher's local party passed a motion last week condemning the regime's shameless rigging of party democracy and demanding to be allowed to select their candidates without interference. James IV of Scotland reigned as the king of Scotland from 1488 until his death in 1513. However, the talks failed to lead to any tangible progress,. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, family's cash-and-carry firm advertising jobs that paid less than the "real" living wage, Sarwar to stand in Scottish Labour leader race, Prince Andrew offered Frogmore Cottage - reports, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Bieber cancels remaining Justice world tour dates, Eli Lilly caps monthly insulin costs in US at $35. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. With the. Most would agree that the people who have broken something are rarely the best people to fix it, and I don't believe the current government is capable of providing the leadership Britain requires. "[56], In the 2012 Scottish local elections, Labour were outpolled by the SNP. Donald Dewar led Labour's campaign for the first elections to the Scottish Parliament on 6 May 1999. Richard Leonard was elected as the partys leader on 18 November 2017. To find out more about these cookies, see our privacy notice. Labour leader Keir Starmer will deliver a speech at midday on Sunday. Labour Party website. This was the first time the party had not dominated in Scotland since the Conservative Party landslide in 1959. [80] Her deputy, Alex Rowley, took over as acting leader until 15 November, when he was suspended from Scottish Labour's parliamentary party while a probe into his conduct took place. On 15 August 2007, McConnell announced his intention to resign as Scottish Labour leader. The 37-year-old was the Glasgow Central MP from 2010 to 2015 and was firmly in the Gordon Brown camp of New Labour. The party's policies usually promote social democracy and democratic socialism. He tendered his resignation to the Queen. The fact that she gave up the deputy leadership is unlikely to count against her but she may judged to be too controversial for the job. Wallace has also inspired video games and brewery companies, such is his popularity. . All Adults. The immediate concern for Mr Sarwar is May's Holyrood election where party strategists are hoping the new leader can lift them from third to second place in Scottish politics. Labour led the SNP in the polls for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election until the campaign began in March, at which point support for the SNP rallied. Leadership and Deputy Leadership election 2020 - Results. It is part of the British Labour Party. The most recent incumbent ran for the leadership against Ken Macintosh at a particularly grim moment for the party, and won handily. [95] Shortly afterwards, it was reported that Leonard had been pressured into resigning by wealthy donors, who told UK Labour leader Keir Starmer that they would not give money to the Westminster party unless Leonard quit. [55] Party leader Iain Gray, who held on to his own seat by only 151 votes, announced that he would be resigning with effect from later in the year. Labour Party Rule Book 2019 [pdf]: includes leadership election rules and procedures for selecting candidates. Anas Sarwar and his wife Furheen in 2017 - the couple have three children together, Mr Sarwar congratulating Mr Leonard after his victory in 2017 after an acrimonious leadership contest, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Richard was also an influential writer. He won many battles for Charles I but was defeated in the Battle of Carbisdale, following which he was hanged to death in the Edinburgh marketplace. She accused Labour's UK-wide leadership of undermining her attempts to reform the Scottish Labour Party and treating it "like a branch office of London. 30 Aug 2017. On 17 December 2011, Johann Lamont MSP was elected as leader and Anas Sarwar MP was elected as her deputy. Better known as the pioneer of Protestant missionary work in China, Robert Morrison was the first missionary from the London Missionary Society to visit China. SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT As part of Transforming Scotland's Economy, we will be joined by The Scottish Government's Ivan McKee and the UK government's Lord YOU. His best-known work remains A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Apart from translating the Bible into Chinese, he also enriched Anglo-Chinese literature with his dictionaries and books on Chinese grammar. Scottish broadcaster John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith is remembered for introducing the concept of independent public service corporations in Britain. r/LabourUK Join 7 days ago Labour leads by 27%, the largest lead for Labour since Sunak became PM. [71] It was the first time since 1959 that the party had not won the most votes in Scotland at a general election. This story has been archived. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority confirms that MPs pay will increase by 2.9% from April 2023, taking their salary from 84,144 to 86,584. When Gordon Brown's Labour government lost the election of that year, due to a swing to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in England, none of Scotland's Labour MPs lost their seat, and many were elected with strengthened majorities." Vote Labour get Tory! After the forced abdication of King John Balliol, Comyn served as Guardian of Scotland. Report. Lord Gordon of Strathblane. Despite this, Anas Sarwar remained as leader. 27 February 2021 PA Media Anas Sarwar has been elected the new leader of Scottish Labour replacing Richard Leonard who led the party for three years. List of leaders since 1999 Donald Dewar 19992000 1st First Minister of Scotland died in office Henry McLeish 20002001 2nd First Minister of Scotland resigned Jack McConnell 20012007 3rd First Minister of Scotland lost Scottish Parliament election. British politician Stephen Crabb, who represents the Welsh Conservatives, had initially worked as a marketing consultant and had also been associated with the London Chamber of Commerce. Vind hoogwaardige nieuwsfoto's in een hoge resolutie op Getty Images Scotgov took eye off the ball on NHS, says ScotLab Anas Sarwar. Throughout the later decades of the 20th century and into the first years of the 21st, Labour dominated politics in Scotland; winning the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 to 2010, every European Parliament election from 1984 to 2004 and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003. Meet Anas Leader of the Scottish Labour Party. [76], In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Labour lost a third of its seats, dropping from 37 to 24. See More by this Creator. Kate Forbes, the finance secretary and one of the candidates, last night said: "I fully believe in democracy and. Anyone that wished to vote in the leadership election must have either been a member of the Scottish Labour Party, an 'affiliated supporter' (through being signed up as a Scottish Labour Party supporter through an affiliated organisation or union), or a 'registered supporter' (which requires signing up online and paying a one-off fee of 12) by 9 October. The Scottish Executive Committee is made up of representatives of party members, elected members and party affiliates, for example, trade unions and socialist societies. Union leaders met with the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, recently for the first discussion since the strikes earlier this month. The contenders were Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, a former Enterprise Minister in the previous Labour Executive, Andy Kerr, MSP for East Kilbride and former Health Secretary in the previous administration, and Cathy Jamieson MSP, the acting party leader who had been deputy leader under Jack McConnell. Anas Sarwar became a member of the Scottish Labour party at the age of 16, but politics was already in his blood. One of the most popular kings of Scotland, James socialized often with the commoners. [69] Many senior party figures were unseated, including Murphy himself (East Renfrewshire), Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) and Shadow Scotland Secretary Margaret Curran (Glasgow East). Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Dewar also campaigned vigorously for a Yes-Yes vote to win a Scottish Parliament in the 1997 referendum. Party leader - Nicola Sturgeon Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party - 31 MSPs Party leader - Douglas Ross Scottish Labour - 22 MSPs Party leader - Anas Sarwar Scottish Green Party - 7 MSPs Party leaders - Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater Scottish Liberal Democrats - 4 MSPs Party leader - Alex Cole-Hamilton No Party Affiliation - 1 MSP The party holds an annual conference during February/March each year. The 2020 Labour Party leadership election was triggered after Jeremy Corbyn announced his intention to resign as the leader of the Labour Party following the partys defeat at the 2019 general electionIt was won by Keir Starmer who received 562 per cent of the vote on the first roundIt was held alongside the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. By this time the partys structure in the nation was complex with constitu. Scottish Labour is registered with the UK Electoral Commission as an Accounting Unit (AU) of the UK Labour Party and is therefore not a registered political party under the terms of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. [32], At the start of the campaign for the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, Labour were behind the SNP in most of the opinion polls. However, it gained votes and council seats and held its majorities on the councils of Glasgow and North Lanarkshire and regained control of Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire. She enjoyed a surprise bounce in June's general election, however, clawing back six seats from the SNP to bring the party's total MPs to seven. Reaching the heady heights of three years and three months in post (albeit the final seven in a caretaker role), Iain Gray is the longest serving party leader post-devolution bar Jack McConnell. Matt is also a Scottish Labour activist, and member of Unite. Alexander also boldly suggested she would be willing to support a referendum on Scottish independence with the words: "Bring it on." In his pitch to party members, Mr Sarwar said he wanted to "rebuild Scottish Labour, and then rebuild Scotland". Labour are nothing more now than a light blue Conservative Party, their silence on the U.K. having the highest gas and electricity prices in Europe just in order to increase profits for Tory donors is . Meet our team in Westminster. [38], During a TV interview on 4 May 2008, Wendy Alexander performed a major U-turn on previous Scottish Labour policy by seeming to endorse a referendum on Scottish independence, despite previously refusing to support any referendum on the grounds that she did not support independence. If I'm honest, I didnt quite grip or grasp how I think hollowed out we were as an organisation, not just in terms of our political message and our political result, as an organisation I hadn't really grasped how hollowed out we were. Head Chef. The National asked Regan if she thought she was being painted as the Alba candidate in the race, and for her response. Jackson Carlaw is a Scottish politician best known for his association with the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party where he served as the leader from February to July 2020. As with Welsh Labour, Scottish Labour has its own general secretary which is the administrative head of the party, responsible for the day-to-day running of the organisation, and reports to the UK General Secretary of the Labour Party. [74][75] On 1 November 2015, Scottish Labour Party delegates backed a vote to scrap the UK's Trident nuclear missile system. He has also penned novels such as The Blood Brother and non-fiction works such as Brexit Without the Bullshit. He was deputy head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) from 1919 to 1942. Between 1905 and 1912, he served as the Secretary of State for War and was instrumental in implementing a series of reforms of the British Army called The Haldane Reforms. The success was short-lived, however, and at the 2019 general election, Labour lost all new seats gained two years earlier, and again were left with Edinburgh South as their only Scottish seat in the House of Commons. One problem was that then-Labour PM Gordon Brown did not seem to agree. Spokespersons are people chosen by their parties to act as a representative on a specified area of policy. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known by his pseudonym, Hugh MacDiarmid, was one of the pillars of the 20th-century Scottish literary renaissance. The 2020 Labour Party leadership election was triggered after Jeremy Corbyn announced his intention to resign as the leader of the Labour Party following the partys defeat at the 2019 general electionIt was won by Keir Starmer who received 562 per cent of the vote on the first roundIt was held alongside the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. Success is not a concept Scottish Labour have been familiar with over the past 15 years. All three contenders for the party leadership have criticised the plans. Clement Attlee, 1950. McLeish resigned later that year amid a scandal involving allegations that he sub-let part of his tax-subsidised Westminster constituency office without it having been registered in the register of interests kept in the Parliamentary office, an affair which the press called Officegate. 9 February -. 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