Brian Leishman: “You cannot cut departmental budgets and lift people out of poverty and improve people’s lives.”

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

Scottish Labour must have a coherent answer to the question of what is the democratic route to another indyref.

If it’s another No result, then there should be an agreed timescale before there could be another one – for example, 25 years.

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.