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Scotland needs Jim Murphy (even if he doesn’t want to go back there)

Scottish Labour must have a strong, centrist leader to avoid giving in to the SNP’s intolerant lefist agenda

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

There should, by rights, have been a stampede of candidates to replace Johann Lamont as the leader of the Scottish Labour party. With the new powers promised to Holyrood, the Scottish First Minister promises to be a more powerful figure than most of the Cabinet. Only the holders of the great offices of state will be more influential than the occupant of Bute House.

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