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Finally, Scottish Labour has a real chance with Richard Leonard

SCOTTISH Labour leadership elections are a bit like Glasgow buses — you wait ages for one and then along come three.

Although to be honest we’ve not had to wait that long for them here in Scotland of late, having had contests in 2011, 2014 and 2015.

It was only a year ago Jeremy Corbyn stormed to his second leadership victory, seeing off Owen Smith in a Britain-wide contest. Then last month Kezia Dugdale resigned ostensibly, and probably honestly, for personal rather than political reasons, creating another contest for the leadership, this time for Scottish Labour.

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