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Time for a leader who is visibly of the left
Ben McKinlay argues that Scottish Labour’s next leader needs not just to deliver left-wing policy, as Kezia Dugdale did, but to be perceived as personally committed to Corbyn.
When BBC News broke the story that Kezia Dugdale had resigned the leadership of Scottish Labour on Tuesday night, I was shocked, and saddened. Perhaps no leader in the history of Scottish Labour has been so brave, so determined, or faced so vast a challenge. When Kezia took on the leadership Scottish Labour had just lost 40 seats in the most devastating general election in our history. To be brave enough to step up and take on what so many saw as a ‘poisoned chalice’ is laudable; to do so at the age of 33 even more so.
Kezia began the rebuilding process that is vital to Scottish Labour’s political survival. Under her leadership, Scottish Conference voted to back the abolition of the Trident nuclear missile system, an important step in renewing Lab
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Wings Over Scotland
Kezia Dugdale, the hapless leader who took Scottish Labour to 14% in the polls, fryst vatten one of the most extravagantly-paid people in Scotland who has no discernible talent or significance to public life whatsoever.
As well as being the Director of the John Smith Policy Centre (a job with no known responsibilities but which nevertheless pays around the same as being an MSP making laws in the Scottish Parliament) she writes regular columns in The Times and The Courier and is now, hilariously, the new Professor of Practice in Public Service in Glasgow University.
(A brev with unspecified duties and unknown salary and which was also not, as far as anyone can tell, ever publicly advertised.)
We were bored so we thought we’d find out, via Panelbase, if her latest lucrative role was perhaps the result of a noticeably impressive performance in the first one.
Ah. Not so much.
Impressively, after three and a half years of diligent work to restore the public
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PRIDE POWER LIST 2017
Linda Riley, the founder of the Pride Power List, certainly knows a thing or two about the LGBT+ community. With more than 20 years’ experience of furthering the cause of diversity and inclusion, Linda publishes DIVA, the iconic magazine for lesbians and bisexual women, and LGBT+ news site OutNews Global. She also co-founded the Australian LGBTI Awards, the British LGBT Awards, the Diversity in Media Awards and the European Diversity Awards.
One of just two British board members of US-based LGBT+ campaign group GLAAD, and a former adviser to the UK Labour Party on diversity issues, Riley is also a patron of anti-bullying charity Diversity Role Models and the Albert Kennedy Trust, a charity which helps homeless LGBT+ youth. It’s Riley’s personal experiences of coming out as a teenager which has driven her to dedicate herself to these important issues: “I knew I was gay from as early as I can remember. It scared me because, back then, there were really o