The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
THERE ARE, in every year, regular events and seasons we come to expect.
Easter, Christmas, Strictly Come Dancing, and of course that one there isn’t a name for but we are all familiar with. It’s the time of year where Scottish Labour’s kamikaze squad don their helmets and head scarves and push down on the throttle determined to destroy what remains of the party.
Not happy with previous efforts to lead the party to oblivion — Iraq, cosying up to Bush, befriending Rupert Murdoch and the super-rich, Better Together, Jim Murphy etc — they now seem to be pulling out all of the stops to kill the party once and for all.
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE


