Labour Party

The Scottish Labour Party is an autonomous section within the UK Labour Party. It currently holds 23 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 1 of 59 Scottish seats in the UK House of Commons. It was previously the most prominent political party in Scotland. Complacency took hold of the party and it ended up expecting electoral success rather than earning in. Consequently the rise of the SNP devastated the Labour Party in Scotland, a situation from which it has yet to recover.

History suggests next year's general election may not be the triumphal procession for Starmer that so many are expecting
30th Jul 2023 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 31 views
Abject humiliation for Keir Starmer in Uxbridge by - election casts doubt over whether Labour's national poll lead has any real substance to it at all
21st Jul 2023 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 84 views
Landmark Panelbase poll shows SNP on course for defeat at the general election. This has to be the reality - check that causes denial within the SNP …
17th Jun 2023 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 38 views
Is Starmer going full Farage the 'get out of jail free' card the SNP have been waiting for?
31st May 2023 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 30 views
By just how much is Labour's lead in the Britain - wide polls shrinking?
23rd Apr 2023 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 32 views
Tories cut Labour's Britain - wide lead to just 10 points in new poll - the lowest since Liz Truss was Prime Minister
20th Mar 2023 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 15 views
If the expression "thin gruel" didn't exist, we'd have to invent it to describe Gordon Brown's constitutional reform plan
6th Dec 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 15 views
Labour's GB-wide poll lead slips to lowest level since Sunak became Prime Minister
4th Dec 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 27 views
Frustration as SNP narrowly fail to hold off the Labour challenge in Broxburn by-election
2nd Dec 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 47 views
More polling evidence that Europe could be Keir Starmer's Achilles Heel when facing the SNP in a general election functioning as a de facto independe…
29th Nov 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 12 views
Support for pro-independence parties increases in the Linn by-election - but Labour still take the seat
18th Nov 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 54 views
Memo to London Labour: you do realise people in Scotland can hear you when you speak, yeah?
15th Nov 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 39 views
For the time being, the SNP still seem to be holding off the Labour challenge
7th Nov 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 26 views
Just one poll since Sunak became PM has shown him truly slashing the Labour lead
31st Oct 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 24 views
Darkness descends upon dejected Labour as new YouGov data shows 13% of their Scottish voters from the 2019 general election have defected to the SNP
8th Oct 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 31 views
Further polling straw in the wind from YouGov suggests once again that Labour are failing to break through in Scotland
28th Sep 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 31 views
A timely reality-check for Blair McDougall & co, as new YouGov poll shows that fewer people in Scotland would even CONSIDER voting Labour than in any…
28th Sep 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 27 views
Scottish Labour have just helpfully destroyed one of their own favourite myths - thanks, Anas
30th May 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 68 views
Has the Boris Factor outlived its usefulness for the independence movement?
25th Jan 2022 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 37 views
Big drop in Labour vote as SNP win Falkirk by-election
15th Oct 2021 - James Kelly - Scot goes Pop! - 45 views