Brian Leishman: “Things absolutely must change, we cannot carry on with the failed policies and politics that have seen us reduced to our…”

You cannot cut departmental budgets and lift people out of poverty and improve people’s lives.

Parts of the UK have declared drought status yet there is a political push for nuclear energy requiring huge amounts of water to operate.

Those in charge of Scottish Labour need to wake up to the fact that the Scottish people don’t want what we are offering.

Our Scottish Labour members deserve better than that. They deserve, and must have, the opportunity to engage in a robust debate of ideas and beliefs and then make the decision on the future direction of our party.