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Former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard, joins teachers on the picket line outside Falkirk High School in Stirlingshire, in a protest over pay, January 27, 2023
A MOTION condemning Keir Starmer for “boasting” of the sacking of Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard was defeated in a card vote at the STUC congress today.
The motion referred to an interview Mr Starmer gave to the Times newspaper on the third anniversary of him winning the Labour Party leadership.
Talking of having to make “some pretty ruthless decisions” since becoming leader, Sir Keir said: “We knew what we had to do with the general secretary. Look at Scotland, for example, now Sturgeon has gone.
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
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