Too often, councils are asked to make impossible choices, but power is pulled upwards. If we're to rebuild trust, we should start from the places where people actually experience politics."
Discussing the need for local power in Labour's strategy.
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It’s time to reach out beyond the Holyrood bubble and shake up Scottish politics.
Andy Burnham’s by-election victory in Makerfield and our own successes in South Lanarkshire show that Labour can win back trust when we are rooted in communities and serious about changing people’s lives.
Let me be plain about myself. I am in this for Scotland and nowhere else. I am not building the kind of career that ends in ermine. You will never see my name on a list for the House of Lords. I want to serve the country I am from.
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