Anas Sarwar spoke for 52 minutes today at Scottish Labour Conference in Glasgow, to a gathering of supporters who seemed at times unsure whether their ..read more

Kirsty McNeill, the Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, sets out four major challenges facing Scotland ..read more

John Erskine, a former Scottish Labour candidate for the Highlands and Islands and a former Scottish Labour spokesperson for Transport, Connectivity and the Islands, welcomes ..read more

Nick Hopkins, a long-time Labour member and specialist in work on poverty, welfare reform and financial inclusion, sets out his anger and frustration at the ..read more

Ten years on from the independence referendum, Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall reflects on a success that we failed to celebrate, a decade of constitutional ..read more

Robert Hoskins reflects on the ten years since the independence referendum, the reality of where the SNP now find themselves, and how their own logic ..read more

Anas Sarwar’s achievement in leading Scottish Labour to a seismic defeat of the SNP in the UK election is immense, but is only the first step on the road to him becoming First Minister in 2026, writes Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall. Scotland has woken up to a new political reality today. Across the country, to an extent nobody predicted, the message of change, of moving on from the constitutional deadlock of the last seventeen years, has finally delivered a huge Scottish majority of Labour MPs as part of the UK landslide which has sent Keir Starmer to Number 10. Every new Scottish Labou ..read more

Robert Hoskins (@hoski67) of Cathcart CLP says after years of the SNP driving wedges, one of the biggest benefits of electing Labour MPs and MSPs will be to heal the unnecessary rifts between the Holyrood and Westminster parliaments, and between Scotland and the rest of the UK. Despite the loss of the 2014 referendum on Scottish Independence, the SNP-led Scottish Government often acts as if Scotland is already an independent country. It delivers this charade through the adoption of three long term aims with regards to Scotland’s relationship with the UK. It tries firstly to amplify to Scots e ..read more

John Ruddy takes a look at recent Scottish polling against the backdrop of Labour’s continuing surge across the UK, and sees hope and ramifications. The latest polling for Labour in Scotland is excellent news, and shows that having strong, competent leaders, both at Westminster in the form of Keir Starmer and at Holyrood with Anas Sarwar, is key to the revival of Labour fortunes north of the border. But there is more to come. The latest slew of Scotland-only polls shows Labour clearly in second place in Scotland, and gaining 6 seats for a total of 7 if an election were held now. Alongside the ..read more

Graeme Downie, Scottish Labour’s candidate for West Fife and Coastal Villages in May’s local election, compares the values exposed by the last two years of Tory and SNP government to those by which the Labour Party seeks to serve. “Adversity does not build character, it reveals it” said the novelist James Lane Allen, and this applies about as clearly to the years of Covid political decision making as it does to any time of the past. It is therefore worth reflecting on what government responses over the past two years tell us about the character, and indeed values, of Scotland’s two ruling par ..read more