Douglas Alexander: “What Andy wants is a national conversation about Brexit and about our relationship with the European Union.”

We’re already paying a real economic price for putting up new barriers to our European neighbours who, with almost half of total UK trade, remain easily our largest trading partners.

Conference just last Thursday, the SNP-led Glasgow City Council attempted to fire and rehire more than 20,000 of their employees. This is happening not in 1926, conference, not 1926, but in 2026 conference. The SNP should hang their heads…

We are saying the time has come to think broadly about what should be our options.

There are always teething problems.