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John Healey after his conference speech

Boost for Rolls Royce Scots plant as firm invests £300m in factories

John Healey speaking at Labour Party conference

Analysis John Healey's relaxed conference speech was engaging but lacked detail

Michael Marra shakes hands with a party member after being announced as winner of the Scottish Labour leadership contest (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: 'New Labour' to blame for Scottish party's decline

Jimmy Reid addresses a mass meeting of the Upper Clyde Shipyards workforce at Clydebank in July 1971 (Picture: Allan Milligan)

Readers' Letters: What Scottish Labour needs is a new Jimmy Reid

Douglas Alexander

Who will be Scottish Secretary when Andy Burnham becomes PM?

Andy Burnham at Ashton Town FC in Ashton-in-Makerfield, after winning the Makerfield by-election PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

A battle of ideas is needed before Burnham gets to Number 10

Former MP Roy Hattersley in the stands during the West Bromwich Albion v Sheffield Wednesday Sky Bet Championship match in 2019

Roy Hattersley, former Labour deputy leader, dies aged 93

Andy Burnham urged voters to back him to 'change Labour'

Analysis Burnham talks to people on their level - unlike uneasy Starmer

An activist holding a placard with portraits of US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally condemning the US-Israeli strikes on Iran at a park in Quezon City, suburban Manila on March 2, 2026. (Picture: Ted ALJIBE / AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: So is it now OK for any country to attack another?

Fantasy to think Sir Keir Starmer can survive Peter Mandelson outrage Euan McColm

A turbine on the Burradale wind farm near Lerwick in the Shetland Islands (Picture: William Edwards)

Trump demands Starmer ditch wind power and revive North Sea oil

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is still finding his feet

Five years into Starmer’s tenure, he still lacks a defining mission Alexander Brown

John Mulvey saw local government as an important source of power

Obituaries: John Mulvey, former leader of Lothian Regional Council

Analysis How did Rachel Reeves do with the UK Budget? The simple answer is not very well

Lord Mandelson will deliver the speech in Edinburgh on Thursday

New Labour boss issues 'doom loop' message as £25bn tax rises 'needed'

Sue Gray has packed her bags and become an envoy for the Council of Nations and Regions

The team selected to turn around Sir Keir Starmer's premiership

Oasis are back - but a reader says there was nothing 'cool' about 'Cool Britannia' (Picture: Ian Georgeson)

Readers' letters: There's nothing 'cool about 'New Labour' or 'Change' Labour

SNP needs to be hoisted out of power, but will Labour be any better? Joyce McMillan

Here's how Chancellor plans to return UK to New Labour boom years

Starmer needs to play active role in Scotland to help Labour win Holyrood 2026 Scotsman comment

Why Thatcher's 'greatest achievement' should make you wary of voting Labour Stewart McDonald

Why Rishi Sunak called a July election and what it means for Scotland

Former prime minister Tony Blair with his deputy prime minister John Prescott and chief of staff Jonathan Powell. Image: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.

Scottish Labour predicts an election victory like that of Tony Blair in 1997

Lurching even further to the right can only hurt the Conservatives Euan McColm

'Common People' dismayed by Sunak's tax cuts for rich can take hope Susan Dalgety

Starmer's appeals to Tory swing voters may backfire badly in Scotland Joyce McMillan

Thatcher wouldn't think much of Starmer's stance on private school fees John McLellan

Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer stand on stage after his keynote address to delegates (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Starmer vows to stoke the ‘fire of change’ with plan to build a new Britain

Douglas Alexander is aiming to capture East Lothian for Labour at the next general election

Readers' Letters: What can Labour’s Douglas Alexander offer Scotland?

Exclusive Douglas Alexander: SNP's Westminster record 'a study in impotence and failure'

Yousaf is stuck between a very hard rock and an uncomfortable place John McLellan

The ineffectual processing of asylum seeker applications in Britain has been highlighted as a growing concern

Scotsman Letters: Shortage of processing staff adds to asylum seeker crisis

Glenda Jackson holding the Oscar which she won for her role as Gudrun in Women in Love (Photo by Mike Lawn/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Obituary: Glenda Jackson, Oscar-winning actress turned Labour politician

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a 'Making Britain Work For Scotland' rally

Gordon Brown’s latest ‘save the Union’ plan faces reality check

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer making his speech to the Progressive Britain conference at Congress House (Pic: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Keir Starmer warns Labour faces ‘dirty and nasty’ General Election campaign

A statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous Square in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 2003 (Picture: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)

For many countries, the Iraq War is a lasting reminder of western hypocrisy

Labour leader Neil Kinnock looked set to become the next Prime Minister in the run-up to the 1992 general election, won by John Major's Conservatives (Picture: Michael Stephens/PA)

Labour landslide? Starmer looks more like Kinnock than Blair – John McLellan

Green Goddesses lined up at Redford Barracks

Remembering when workers went on strike in Scotland in 2002-03

Dr Fraser McMillan has written on the prospects for Scottish independence. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

Why calling Sturgeon's bluff may come back to haunt UK 'elites'

Keir Starmer delivers the speech in which he spoke about 'taking back control'

Readers' Letters: ‘Take back control’ doesn’t extend to Scotland

How will Scotland abolish child poverty when even relatively high-tax, wealthy countries struggle to do so (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

SNP's rhetoric about ending child poverty does not square with economic reality

The outgoing chief executive of Offshore Energies UK has warned against 'environmental populism'. Photo: Getty Images

Outgoing boss of oil and gas trade body warns against 'environmental populism'
The boss of the oil and gas industry body has warned against "environmental populism" as she prepares to leave the role after almost eight years at the helm.

Heather Small's son is a Labour councillor

M People founder says band are ‘livid’ at use of song at Tory Party conference

King Charles III receives Prime Minister Liz Truss in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace (Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Truss's 'New Conservative' government echoes New Labour's view of taxation

Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey (right) celebrates with Richard Foord, the newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton in the Tiverton and Honiton by-election. Picture: PA

Analysis: Why Boris Johnson is no longer a winner and is on borrowed time

Union leader Jimmy Reid addresses a mass meeting of the Upper Clyde Shipyards at Clydebank in July 1971 (Picture: Allan Milligan)

Scotland's radicals are in need of a party to call home – Kenny MacAskill MP

Boris Johnson may have convinced the British public they need a serious, even if dull, leader (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA)

How history shows UK may be ready for Starmer to replace Johnson

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking during the Scottish Labour conference at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Analysis: Anas Sarwar is joining Keir Starmer and channelling New Labour

Keir Starmer's speech may not have gone down as well in Scotland as other parts of the UK (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Starmer is trying to reinvent a Blair-style New Labour – Joyce McMillan

Tony Blair wanted to avoid international discussions about Lockerbie.

Tony Blair tried to block Nelson Mandela talking about Lockerbie bombing

Tony Blair has admitted that “weaknesses” with New Labour’s devolution policy failed to quash nationalism in Scotland, as a string of polls suggest pro-independence parties are on course to win big at May’s election.

Blair admits devolution ‘weaknesses’ failed to ‘end argument” over independence

The Statue of Former First Minister Donald Dewar one of the founding fathers of Devolution

New Labour leader must tackle SNP on its policy failures - Euan McColm

The Covid crisis means the UK needs a new contract with the public over NHS funding, which recognises the reality of an economy that will take years to recover and accepts the cost of an ageing population (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Covid crisis means we need radical reform of how NHS is funded – John McLellan

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces a battle to rebuild his party's fortunes north of the Border

It is in all our interests for Labour’s voice to be heard again - Christine Jard...

Footballer Marcus Rashford turned food poverty into a major political issue by speaking about his childhood experiences of hunger (Picture: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)

How Marcus Rashford shamed both Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer – Laura Waddell

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. (UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor)

Boris Johnson signals coronavirus lockdown will be eased on Monday

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries