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‘Radical policies not personalities will win back Scotland’

“RADICAL” policies not personality politics will reconnect Labour with the Scottish people, party leadership candidate Neil Findlay said yesterday.

Mr Findlay was invited to pin the blame for polls predicting a Labour wipeout in Scotland on Ed Miliband’s public image during an interview on BBC radio.

Two separate polls released on Thursday showed Labour support plummeting from around 40 to 20 per cent — figures that would return as few as four MPs at the general election.

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