[34] SNP leader Alex Salmond was elected first minister with support from the Scottish Greens, defeating McConnell 49-46 while the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats abstained. Meet our team in Westminster. It is part of the British Labour Party. [73] Under normal circumstances, Deputy Leader Kezia Dugdale would become acting leader, but former Leader Iain Gray was appointed Acting Leader whilst a leadership and a deputy leadership election are being simultaneously held on account of Dugdale resigning as Deputy Leader to stand for Leader. [35][36] Labour did take the most votes in the local elections on the same day but lost seats due to the introduction of proportional representation for local council elections. Spokespersons are people chosen by their parties to act as a representative on a specified area of policy. This morning, Keir Starmer will continue outlining the " missions " that he has said will form the backbone of Labour's plans for government. When Gordon Brown's Labour government lost the election of that year, due to a swing to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in England, none of Scotland's Labour MPs lost their seat, and many were elected with strengthened majorities." Vote Labour get Tory! Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh (Constituency) Twitter Email. He also commanded Scotland's defence against English attacks for some time. Richard was also an influential writer. Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane was a British philosopher, lawyer, and politician. The Glasgow MSP has also taken a firm stance against the prospect of another independence referendum which he claims is not credible as the country rebuilds after Covid. Westminster VI (18 February): Labour 51% (+3) Conservative 24% (-3) Liberal Democrat 10% (+1) Reform UK 6% (-) Green 5% (-) SNP 3% (-1) Other 1% (-) 147 137 r/LabourUK Join 24 days ago Scottish National Party. Listed on 2023-01-24. The Glasgow MSP takes over less than three. [89] Leonard apologised for the UK party failing to address concerns over Brexit and for the Scottish party not having stopped what he described as the "SNP juggernaut". He also served as the Lord Chancellor twice during his illustrious career. Former MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife (Region) Claudia Beamish. Alastair Denniston was a Scottish code breaker and hockey player. His dad, Mohammad Sarwar, was the UK's first ever Muslim MP and held the Glasgow Central seat for Labour between 1997 and 2010 - until his son Anas succeeded him. 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Hornsey and Wood Green members voted strongly for the following emergency motion: Selection of Candidates [28] Though McLeish could not have personally benefited financially from the oversight, he undertook to repay the 36,000 rental income, and resigned to allow Scottish Labour a clean break to prepare for the 2003 Scottish Parliament election. So let's take a look at Scottish Labour's various leaders down the years. [72] On 16 May 2015, Murphy resigned as leader effective 13 June 2015. [90] However, he said he would continue as leader and carry out a listening exercise. He tendered his resignation to the Queen. Britain's economic plan. The success was short-lived, however, and at the 2019 general election, Labour lost all new seats gained two years earlier, and again were left with Edinburgh South as their only Scottish seat in the House of Commons. Anas Sarwar is the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party. The Scottish Labour Party is a political party in Scotland. List of leaders since 1999 Donald Dewar 19992000 1st First Minister of Scotland died in office Henry McLeish 20002001 2nd First Minister of Scotland resigned Jack McConnell 20012007 3rd First Minister of Scotland lost Scottish Parliament election. He was stung by a couple of campaign blunders, including trying to hide from protesters in a Subway shop in Glasgow and a bizarre dispute with Salmond over which leader ran away from the other when they visited the same supermarket in Ardrossan. The 37-year-old was the Glasgow Central MP from 2010 to 2015 and was firmly in the Gordon Brown camp of New Labour. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz Bookmark. Party leader - Nicola Sturgeon Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party - 31 MSPs Party leader - Douglas Ross Scottish Labour - 22 MSPs Party leader - Anas Sarwar Scottish Green Party - 7 MSPs Party leaders - Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater Scottish Liberal Democrats - 4 MSPs Party leader - Alex Cole-Hamilton No Party Affiliation - 1 MSP Dugdale won the 2015 leadership election on 15 August 2015, beating Ken Macintosh. [25] On 21 October, Henry McLeish was elected to succeed Dewar, defeating rival Jack McConnell. FM Nicola Sturgeon says NHS funding has doubled, and frontline spending is 10% higher than in England. She quit the role due to issues around donations her campaign for the leadership had taken, although authorities ultimately took no action against her. It was formerly co-located with the offices of Unite the Union at John Smith House, 145 West Regent Street. National Executive Committee - roles and responsibilities. By IsabellaLinton. "Johann Lamont named new Scottish Labour leader", "MP Jim Murphy named Scottish Labour leader", "Scottish Labour agree to swathe of party reforms and new leader will be announced on August 15th", "Kezia Dugdale quits as Scottish Labour leader", "Alex Rowley steps down as interim Scottish Labour leader", "Richard Leonard to lead Scottish Labour", "Anas Sarwar elected as new leader of Scottish Labour Party", Scottish Trade Union Labour Party Committee, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leader_of_the_Scottish_Labour_Party&oldid=1070105841, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 5 February 2022, at 18:25. Labour won the most votes and seats, with 56 seats out of 129 (including 53 of the 73 constituency seats), a clear distance ahead of the second-placed Scottish National Party (SNP). At the 2017 general election, Scottish Labour improved their fortunes and gained six seats from the SNP, bringing its total seat tally to seven and winning a 27% share of the vote. [106] The party was criticised in the aftermath of the elections for pledging to do no deals or partake in coalitions with the SNP or the Greens, instead choosing to work with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form minority administrations in several cases. See More by this Creator. View Labour held marginal seats vulnerable at the next Scottish Parliament election. McLeish resigned later that year amid a scandal involving allegations that he sub-let part of his tax-subsidised Westminster constituency office without it having been registered in the register of interests kept in the Parliamentary office, an affair which the press called Officegate. Labour Party website. 2023 BBC. Alex Rowley Julie MacDougall Craig Miller Chris Kane Ryan Smart Ewan Dillon North East Scotland Michael Marra Mercedes Villalba Barry Black Lynn Thomson Richard McCready Georgia Strachan Kaamal Bola Heather Herbert Owen Wright South Scotland Colin Smyth Carol Mochan Martin Whitfield Claudia Beamish Kevin McGregor West Scotland Jackie. As accomplished, high-profile female leaders step back from their careers, I wonder whether any woman can have it all Business Insider - Marguerite Ward 18h As an ambitious woman in her early 30s, I find it painful to see some of my female role models step away from high-profile positions. Dewar also campaigned vigorously for a Yes-Yes vote to win a Scottish Parliament in the 1997 referendum. Labour had a notional loss of 5 seats and an actual loss of 15. Until the Murphy and Boyack review in 2011, the office was Leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament and restricted to members of the Scottish Parliament. Scotland was in the midst of arguably its biggest constitutional crisis for a generation and the leader of Scottish Labour was absent for 48 hours. Initially a journalist, he later focused on writing poetry, but rejected English and wrote in "synthetic Scots" instead. 2. The SNP, meanwhile, swept the board, winning 56 out of 59 seats. Sent to Kolkata by Queen Victoria to introduce tax reforms, he introduced paper currency in the country, but died of dysentery. By this time, the party's structure in the nation was complex, with constituency parties, and branches of affiliated parties, but no co-ordination at the national level. Party Leaders and Spokespersons This Fact Sheet provides a list of the current opposition party leaders and spokespersons who are MSPs. This piece will be updated as further candidates are announced, so do check back for developments. Scottish Labour Leaders Can you name every person who has served as the leader of Scottish Labour? Labour also lost control of Glasgow and three other councils where it had a majority. Scottish Labour is registered with the UK Electoral Commission as an Accounting Unit (AU) of the UK Labour Party and is therefore not a registered political party under the terms of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Legends state he was inspired by a spiders relentless effort to spin a web, to ultimately defeat England. Read about our approach to external linking. This reorientation failed to put the brakes on plummeting polling numbers or the SNP's rising star, eventually leading to a crushing defeat in the 2015 general election. The victory firmly reflected the party's membership make-up at the time; Mr Leonard was a firm supporter of the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn whereas Mr Sarwar had signed a letter opposing Mr Corbyn's bid for re-election. [30], The coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats was narrowly re-elected at the Scottish Parliament election, with Labour losing seven seats and the Liberal Democrats gaining one. The 2020 Labour Party leadership election was triggered after Jeremy Corbyn announced his intention to resign as the leader of the Labour Party following the partys defeat at the 2019 general electionIt was won by Keir Starmer who received 562 per cent of the vote on the first roundIt was held alongside the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. Adam McVey and Cammy Day Fife Council Largest group. He has . The 2019 general election was Labour's worst result nationally in 84 years, with their lowest share of the vote recorded in Scotland since the December 1910 general election. From the Shadow Cabinet to your next door neighbour: together were leading the fight to build a Scotland that works for all. Seasonal/Temporary position. Labour Party Rule Book 2019 [pdf]: includes leadership election rules and procedures for selecting candidates. Politicians and journalists have hit out at the SNP after the party decided to keep the media out of hustings that will determine its new leader and Since 2007, Jackson Carlaw has been serving as a Member of the Scottish Parliament. Job in Harefield Ward - England - UK , UB9 6HJ. Willie Rennie Nicola Sturgeon Douglas Ross Anas Sarwar Patrick Harvie and co-leader Lorna Slater Credit. [60] The group was dismissed by the Scottish Labour leadership as lacking "real support" from within the party. To do that we need new ideas and new thinking. Find out more about Anas now. Labour are nothing more now than a light blue Conservative Party, their silence on the U.K. having the highest gas and electricity prices in Europe just in order to increase profits for Tory donors is . [11], In September 2010, the party issued 13,135 ballot papers to party members during the Labour Party (UK) leadership election. It seemed at one point, like McConnell, that Gray would become a Labour First Minister, with his party ascendant in the polls for much of the time against Salmond's minority SNP administration. Labour leader Keir Starmer will deliver a speech at midday on Sunday. He worked as a code breaker during the war years. Ashley Dalton is the new MP. The most recent incumbent ran for the leadership against Ken Macintosh at a particularly grim moment for the party, and won handily. Voting opened on 27 October and closed at midday on 17 November. Meet Anas, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Meet Ian Murray, MP for Edinburgh South and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Meet our Councillors from all over Scotland, Meet the different groups affiliated with the Scottish Labour Party, Promoted by James Kelly, Scottish General Secretary, The Labour Party, 290 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4RE. The 2021 Scottish Parliament election saw Labour decline even further, achieving their lowest number of seats in Holyrood since devolution in 1999; with 22 MSPs returned to the Scottish Parliament. 27 February 2021 PA Media Anas Sarwar has been elected the new leader of Scottish Labour replacing Richard Leonard who led the party for three years. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Kate Forbes, the finance secretary and one of the candidates, last night said: "I fully believe in democracy and. A Jacobite, Simon Fraser was among the Highlanders who were defeated at the Battle of Culloden and later sentenced to death after being convicted of treason against the Crown. Being the first woman to serve in these positions, Nicola Sturgeon is seen as a majorinspiration to women across Scotland. [14] Other reports in the media at around this time quoted figures of "as low as 8,000" (the Evening Times)[15] and "less than 10,000" (New Statesman). [46][47] On 13 September 2008, Gray was elected leader and promised a "fresh start" for Labour in Scotland. This was the first time the party had not dominated in Scotland since the Conservative Party landslide in 1959. [31] The SNP also lost seats, though other pro-independence parties made gains. Members, MSPs, MPs and affiliated groups will now need to choose their ninth leader since Holyrood opened for business in 1999. He was deputy head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) from 1919 to 1942. [21], From the formation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900, it had members in Scotland, but unlike in England and Wales, it made no pact with the Liberal Party and so initially struggled to make an impact. It's doubly strange, in that the party line these days is that food banks are largely unnecessary because the main cause of food poverty is a lack of cooking and budgetary skills. I find it astonishing that the leaders of the Labour Party and Tory Party are hand-in-glove when it comes to Brexit" SNP Westminster Leader . On 10 April, McConnell unveiled Scottish Labour's election manifesto, which included plans to scrap bills for pensioners and reform Council Tax. Both parties were well short of a majority in the parliament. George Lansbury 19321935 George Lansbury whose grand daughter is Angela Lansbury is. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. On election day itself, the party managed to improve on its 2015 result and received 27% of the Scottish vote in a surprisingly good night for the party nationwide, and picked up 6 seats from the SNP in traditionally Labour areas such as Coatbridge, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, and Rutherglen, bringing its Scottish number of seats to 7. Dumfries and Galloway Labour leader, Archie Dryburgh, said his main priority is now . Scottish Labour's longest serving First Minister and now a lord, McConnell took over from Henry McLeish in 2001 and led his party to victory against John Swinney's SNP in the 2003 Holyrood election. Labour got its lowest percentage of the vote in Scotland in 98 years with 23% and fell into 3rd place, a position it last occupied in Scotland in 1910, behind the Conservatives. [58] Anas Sarwar MP also led an unofficial organisation called the "2014 Truth Team", described by the party as "dedicated to cutting through the noise and delivering [] facts on independence". An explorer at heart, Alexander Burnes joined the East India Company army at 16. Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks Fri 17 Feb 2023 11.38 EST Last modified on Fri 17 Feb 2023 18.25 EST The Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, has launched a detailed attack on Nicola. He said speculation about his leadership had become a distraction, just four. 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Leadership | AFL-CIO History has given us a plethora of political leaders, both good and bad, who have dedicated their lives to the betterment of their countries and the people living in the country. To find out more about these cookies, see our privacy notice. [109], Ian Murray MP for Edinburgh South since 2010. View Reports-/5-RATE QUIZ. British politician Stephen Crabb, who represents the Welsh Conservatives, had initially worked as a marketing consultant and had also been associated with the London Chamber of Commerce. The party's policies usually promote social democracy and democratic socialism. [39] The following day, however, Brown denied this was Labour policy and that Alexander had been misrepresented during Prime Minister's Questions in Westminster. He is believed to be the man responsible for William Wallaces victory at Stirling Bridge and died in battle, though history seems to have been mostly ignorant of his sacrifice. [38], During a TV interview on 4 May 2008, Wendy Alexander performed a major U-turn on previous Scottish Labour policy by seeming to endorse a referendum on Scottish independence, despite previously refusing to support any referendum on the grounds that she did not support independence. As deputy leader at the time of a leadership election. [96][97], On 27 February 2021, former Deputy Leader Anas Sarwar was elected Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, defeating rival Monica Lennon by 57.6% to 42.4% and promised to heal and unite the party. Former MSP for South Scotland (Region) Colin Beattie. An SNP leadership contender has been mocked after claiming an independent Scotland could ditch the pound after a "couple of months". In the Panelbase poll for the Sunday. The return of Alex Salmond to the SNP leadership buoyed the party, and after eight years in power, Labour lost to the SNP in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election by the slimmest of margins - one seat. Anas Sarwar became a member of the Scottish Labour party at the age of 16, but politics was already in his blood. Remembered as the key architect of the devolution settlement, he helped produce the Scotland Act upon which Holyrood would be based. Members, MSPs, MPs and affiliated groups will now need to choose their ninth leader since Holyrood opened for business in 1999. In 2018, Mr Sarwar established the Scottish Parliament's cross-party group on tackling Islamophobia. [22] The Labour Party campaigned for the creation of a devolved Scottish Parliament as part of its wider policy of a devolved United Kingdom. It was a rancorous campaign and Mr Sarwar faced criticism over his children attending a fee-paying school in Glasgow, with questions also raised over his family's cash-and-carry firm advertising jobs that paid less than the "real" living wage of 8.45 an hour. Dewar became the inaugural First Minister of Scotland.[24]. The party has been criticised for fielding a number of candidates affiliated with the Orange Order in local elections. In 2014 I discovered that I am a typical voter in Scotland ( "The undoing of Nicola Sturgeon", 24 February). [16] In December 2014 the newly elected leader Jim Murphy claimed that the figure was "about 20,000" on the TV programme Scotland Tonight. An SNP and Independent collaboration offered a 6.5% hike in council tax - which would have been the highest in Scotland. SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT As part of Transforming Scotland's Economy, we will be joined by The Scottish Government's Ivan McKee and the UK government's Lord Parties can choose how these spokespersons are referred to. He later headed the British Overseas Airways Corporation, too. Explore Scottish Labour's teams From the Shadow Cabinet to your next door neighbour: together we're leading the fight to build a Scotland that works for all. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. 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