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ALISTAIR CRAIG talks to Conrad Landin about Scottish Labour Young Socialists’ plan to put Labour back at the centre of domestic politics
YOUNG BLOOD: GMB Scotland branch secretary Rhea Wolfson with 2,000 paper boats, made from copies of the SNP manifesto, as part of an appeal on behalf of 2,000 equal pay claimants

IN the first four months of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour doubled its membership in London to 81,000.

In Scotland, however, the story was very different. The party, then led in Holyrood by Kezia Dugdale, put just 2,000 new members onto its grand total.

Though Corbyn had been well received at rallies north of the border, it seemed like it would take more than a left-wing Westminster leader to challenge SNP hegemony.

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