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Labour in Scotland has a steep hill to climb, but candidate for Airdrie and Shotts HELEN McFARLANE believes the party’s policies on public services and jobs are winning people over
IT IS undeniable that the rightward drift of Labour during the Blair and Brown years alienated many of the party’s core working-class voters, perhaps most of all in Scotland.
The popularity of the SNP, the independence referendum and its aftermath have left people divided along constitutional lines, a problem for the left which is echoed across the UK too, following the EU referendum.
Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters and activists have a huge job ahead of them to reframe the debate in terms of anti-austerity politics, but there are a number of excellent left Labour candidates across Scotland prepared to take on this challenge.
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