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The Rutherglen and Hamilton West vote will be hotly contested between Labour and the SNP.

LABOUR will face a “marginally bigger” challenge than SNP in the Rutherglen by-election, a polling expert has said.

THE Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election “is about independence”, the First Minister has insisted, as he set out a “stark choice” for…

Rishi Sunak’s announcement that he will allow more drilling in the North Sea has led to new questions over the future of UK energy policy.

JACKIE Baillie has insisted that Scottish Labour are running the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election campaign during a heated exchange with a…

It has become a common complaint among some Labour supporters that Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves are being too cautious about their spending commitments in preparing for a future Labour government. At a recent national policy forum, the leadership clashed with the party’s left, which argued against “fiscal…

RELATIONS between the Labour leadership and the party’s powerful regional mayors are reportedly under strain as Keir Starmer attempts to silence…

What the three largest parties have committed, one year out from a general election

When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak hung a portrait of his predecessor Nigel Lawson behind his desk. This signalled how deeply he identified with the great tax-cutter, champion of privatisation and believer in popular capitalism. But it is also worth recalling that Lawson, who died in April,…