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Labour leader Keir Starmer gives media interviews outside a vaccine centre at the EICC in Edinburgh, Scotland
LABOUR’S election campaign is running up against the difficulty of mobilising supporters it has disenfranchised and insulted.
The resignation of 11 executive members from the Glasgow Kelvin constituency party, including its chair Pauline Bryan, is a protest at the contemptuous way in which the locally chosen candidate Hollie Cameron has been removed and somebody else imposed in her place.
The 11 say they will not be campaigning in the Holyrood seat.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
On the release of her memoir that reveals everything except politics, Sturgeon’s endless media coverage has focused on her panic attacks, sexuality and personal tragedies while ignoring her government’s many failures, writes PAULINE BRYAN
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’