Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2024 1:01:42 GMT
LABOUR have appointed former Better Together chief Blair McDougall as one of their “mission champions” for Scotland.
The East Renfrewshire MP’s new appointment comes just in time for the 10th anniversary of the independence referendum, where his collaboration with the Tories sent Labour to the political fringes for the best part of a decade.
He’ll be joined in the new post by East Kilbride MP Joani Reid (below).
The East Renfrewshire MP’s new appointment comes just in time for the 10th anniversary of the independence referendum, where his collaboration with the Tories sent Labour to the political fringes for the best part of a decade.
He’ll be joined in the new post by East Kilbride MP Joani Reid (below).
He helped run the Scottish Labour leadership campaign of Jim Murphy (above), which in the short term was successful but longer-term ruinous for the party, which was reduced to just one MP north of the Border almost immediately after.
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Never one to give up, McDougall then ran for his former boss’s East Renfrewshire seat in 2017, a bid which moved the party from second place to third.
He then helped Jess Phillips in her unsuccessful Labour leadership bid in 2020.
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Never one to give up, McDougall then ran for his former boss’s East Renfrewshire seat in 2017, a bid which moved the party from second place to third.
He then helped Jess Phillips in her unsuccessful Labour leadership bid in 2020.
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