Brian Leishman: “MPs and MSPs being placed under pressure to block any candidate would be an affront to the values of the Scottish Labour…”

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

Things absolutely must change, we cannot carry on with the failed policies and politics that have seen us reduced to our lowest total of MSPs ever.

And AI data centres would require incredible amounts of water.

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.