Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking during the party's General Election manifesto launch at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, June 18, 2024
Welsh Labour come out fighting to win by-election
ANAS SARWAR’S chief of staff Kate Watson has been named as Scottish Labour’s new general secretary.
Ms Watson had previously served as director of operations at Better Together, the official No campaign in 2014’s referendum on separation, before going on to work for former foreign secretary Douglas Alexander’s consultancy Consequiter.
A candidate for the party in Glasgow East at both the 2017 and 2019 general elections, Ms Watson had faced allegations in 2018 of membership of the British Army’s 77th Brigade, which concerns itself with intelligence, psychological and influencing operations.
It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
