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Labour’s manifesto has captured the imagination with a positive vision for the future, writes NEIL FINDLAY

THE Scottish Labour Party meets this weekend in the great city of Dundee.
A year ago the party was sitting at 14 per cent in the opinion polls and in third place in Scotland, while across Britain things were looking grim.
Theresa May, sensing — very wrongly as it turned out — Labour’s weakness and believing the hype her advisers had created about her apparent strength in the country called a general election in an attempt to strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations.
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