The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
The battle to replace Wendy Alexander as Labour's leader at Holyrood has been postponed until after the Glasgow East by-election and a result is not expected until late September.
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I'm at loss just where Labour stand over the whole issue of where Labour stand on the matter of a referendum over independence for Scotland. Ever since Wendy Alexander's "bring it on" televised statement there has been some uncertainty. First the party in Scotland backing her, only for the Prime Minister to basically leave her in the cold. Which saw the MSPs use more guarded language,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was considering putting herself forward for the Scottish Labour leadership left empty following Wendy Alexander's resignation. She had been tipped as a possible contender for the post once before when Jack McConnell vacated it last year.The 49-year-old, who is married with two children, began her career in community education and lectured for 10 years before becoming a politician....
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
After Wendy Alexander’s ouster, Labour faces a by-election from hell WHEN the 1922 general election swept the Labour Party to dominance in west-central Scotland, a Conservative lamented that it was the worst national disaster since Flodden, a 16th-century battle in which the English crushed the Scots. So recorded the young Gordon Brown in his biography of [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
After Wendy Alexander's ouster, Labour faces a by-election from hell WHEN the 1922 general election swept the Labour Party to dominance in west-central Scotland, a Conservative lamented that it was the worst national disaster since Flodden, a 16th-century battle in which the English crushed the Scots. So recorded the young Gordon Brown in his biography of James Maxton, one of the authors...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
THE Scottish Labour Party has always been a strange beast – unfathomable to outsiders and observers – and often reduced to caricature or romanticism.The current predicament of the party after Wendy Alexander's resignation needs to be put in conte...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
SCOTTISH politics has not lost its capacity to surprise. First a shock MP resignation catapults Labour into a by-election on which the Prime Minister's future depends, on the morning Wendy Alexander's resignation surprised even close colleagues, and as the two contests crank into action this week, one of Holyrood's most predictable fixtures for nine years last night dropped the biggest...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
He told his parliamentary colleagues that he could not juggle the demands of the job with his family life. The MSP has four children and it is understood he has found it increasingly difficult to spend time with his family in Aberdeenshire while being party leader. He will remain as an MSP for Aberdeen South.His resignation means there are now two parties looking for a leader following Wendy...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
... find it difficult to redress its present difficulties.JOHN SUTHERLANDMount GrangeEdinburghWith Wendy Alexander's resignation, the Labour Party in Scotland must reflect hard before rushing to elect a new leader. A central dilemma for the party is that its MSPs and shadow ministers remain unknowns to the general public. The suggested front runners: Andy Kerr, Iain Gray and Margaret...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
He told his parliamentary colleagues that he could not juggle the demands of the job with his family life. The MSP has four children and it is understood he has found it increasingly difficult to spend time with his family in Aberdeenshire while being party leader. He will remain as an MSP for Aberdeen South.His resignation means there are now two parties looking for a leader following Wendy...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
It seems to me that Wendy Alexander used the Holyrood Standards Committee's rebuke as a fig leaf to resign before she was pushed out by her Labour colleagues (your rep
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
... his MSP group.He is the second politician in a week to quit as leader of a major party, following Wendy Alexander's resignation on Saturday.His decision comes only three years after the 48-year-old stepped up to the leadership, replacing Jim Wallace, who had led the party for 13 years. Mr Stephen intends to remain as Aberdeen South MSP.The politician had intended to announce his resignation...
