Favourite for Scottish Labour leader warns of appearance of infighting in UK leadership campaign and calls for basing elected moment chamber in GlasgowKezia Dugdale,the favourite to win over as leader of Scottish Labour, has criticised the length of time the party is devoting to leadership campaigns north and south of the border, and warning it leaves Scottish Labour unprepared for next May’s Holyrood elections and gives the impression of “everyone fighting with each other” in the UK party.
She also warns that a Jeremy Corbyn victory in the UK contest could reduce Labour to “carping on the sidelines” for years. And,after a week in which the UK candidates have been criticised for failing to capitalise on the Sewel scandal to make their case for reforming the House of Lords, she proposes that a reformed moment chamber should be based in Glasgow.
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Source: theguardian.com