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devfud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Scottish_Labour_MPs

http://news.scotsman.com/newsfront.aspx?sectionid=7897&IsTopic=1

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/holyroodelections/Ian-Swanson-Who-will-take.6766285.jp?CommentPage=1&CommentPageLength=1000

leader of the scottish labour party Leader of the Scottish Labour Group in the Scottish Parliament scottish labour leader

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2011/05/17/scottish-labour-should-be-separate-from-national-party-and-leader-should-be-elected-by-ordinary-members-says-mp-86908-23135949/

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Running-for-office-first-sports.6771900.jp

les
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-13454976

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/05/lib-dems-party-grim-media

http://www.scottishconservatives.com/people/msps The Scottish Parliament at Holyrood identifies and debates issues, makes laws, holds the Scottish Government to account, answers to the people of Scotland

http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Labour-and-Lib-Dems-reveal.6771902.jp

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Byelection-result-could-herald-major.6771262.jp

http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/members_of_the_european_parliament

http://libdemsni.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/willie-rennie-the-new-scottish-lib-dems-leader/

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/minister-to-target-sectarian-crime-1.1102760

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/alex-salmond-s-team-in-full-1.1102745

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/holyrood-shuffles-revealed-1.1102744

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/ids-challenge-to-salmond-on-referendum-1.1102736

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics-news/2011/05/19/alex-salmond-unveils-enlarged-cabinet-team-after-being-sworn-in-as-first-minister-86908-23142055/

http://breakingnews.heraldscotland.com/breaking-news/?mode=article&site=hs&id=N0586861305898461530A

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/first-minister-unveils-his-new-look-larger-cabinet-1.1102567

http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Jackie-Baillie-may-stand-for.6767433.jp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13472582

consult
www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2010/873_7.pdf

The Rise and Fall of a 'Europe of the Regions'

http://www.leftfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Labour-Party-Rule-Book-2010.pdf

highgatelabour.org/Rule%20Book%202006.pdf

www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/handle/10037/448/doga.pdf

http://www.labour.org.uk/how_we_work http://www.labour.org.uk/what_is_the_labour_party http://www.labour.org.uk/sitemap http://www.labour.org.uk/national_executive_committee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Executive_Committee

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/iain-gray http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/04/16/labour-hope-of-welsh-assembly-majority-boosted-by-poll-91466-28530753/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/welsh-powers-sufficient-says-ed-miliband-2270331.html http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/04/23/once-again-wales-has-been-outplayed-by-scotland-hutt-slated-over-treasury-cuts-91466-28570373/

http://labourcounts.com/constitution.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_Constitution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Labour_Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_%28UK%29

http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=766 The Auld Enemies: Scottish Nationalism and Scottish Labour scottish labour party gerry hassan http://www.gerryhassan.com/?tag=scottish-labour-party http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=1551 http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=1044 http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=1492 http://www.gerryhassan.com/?tag=labour-party http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=1383&cpage=1 http://www.demos.co.uk/people/gerryhassan http://www.heraldscotland.com/challenge-for-wendy-is-to-put-her-house-in-order-1.863572 http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Gerry-Hassan-It39s-the-right.6736681.jp http://www.newsnetscotland.com/speakers-corner/1717-whatever-happened-to-scottish-labour.html

http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=3034 Gerry Hassan identifies five challenges to the new Scottish Labour Leader Iain Gray "Leader of the Scottish Labour Group in the Scottish Parliament"

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mcconnell-s-key-election-aide-quits-1.827283 news.stv.tv/.../30556-jack-mcconnell-to-resign-seat-when-he-becomes-high-commissioner-to-malawi/

http://www.labourcounts.com/constitution.htm http://politics.caledonianmercury.com/2010/09/29/the-scottish-labour-party-and-its-mysterious-expanding-membership/ scottish labour party membership

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-finance/PEF-online-registers/statements-of-account "wales labour"

CBN
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmscotaf/77/3110402.htm

The Re-Making of Scottish Labour in the 1930s http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10285391 Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray has moved away from openly backing any one contender, but has urged the winning candidate to give him a seat on Labour's ruling body, the national executive committee.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10194478 Iain Gray calls for more Labour Party influence on NEC

www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Shaw_Scottish_labour_party_under_devolution.pdf "scottish labour" "executive committee"

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/welcome-for-scottish-labour-reorganisation-1.433260

http://www.alba.org.uk/labourleadership/labourleadershipcontest7.html

www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2014%20-%20Laffin.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Shaw

http://news.scotsman.com/henrymcleishsofficegateaffair/Labour-web-that-links-council.2308877.jp http://unisondave.blogspot.com/2011/04/scottish-labour-manifesto.html

http://www.gcu.ac.uk/archives/kemp/index.html http://www.yousufhamid.com/ http://news.stv.tv/election-2011/battlegrounds/west-scotland/greenock-inverclyde/constituency-candidates/

www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2009/Kenny.pdf

http://www.thecitizen.org.uk/articles/vol3/article25c.htm http://www.thecitizen.org.uk/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/2211065/Wendy-Alexander-expected-to-resign-as-Scottish-Labour-leader.html

www.scottishaffairs.org/backiss/pdfs/sa48/sa48_Wood.pdf

http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=1551

The Scottish Labour PartyBy Gerry Hassan

the Scottish Labour Party (branded "Scottish Labour") is, according to the Labour part rule book, administratively the regional section of the UK Labour Party. There is no offical position of "Leader of the Scottish Labour Party". Before devolution in 1999, the de facto leader of the Scottish Labour Party was the UK cabinet position Secretary of State for Scotland or Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland.

Post-1999 devolution it is unclear if the Leader of the Scottish Parliamentary Group (currently Iain Gray) is senior or subordinate to the

more backseat role

http://www.heraldscotland.com/labour-is-split-over-scottish-leader-s-power-1.826811 http://www.newsnetscotland.com/politics/344-miliband-urges-its-time-to-end-london-rule http://www.heraldscotland.com/mccabe-leader-in-scotland-should-have-full-party-control-1.847485 scottish labour rule book

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mccabe-leader-in-scotland-should-have-full-party-control-1.847485 http://www.heraldscotland.com/part-3-holyrood-gray-supporter-bought-campaign-website-before-alexander-quit-1.827311

http://www.heraldscotland.com/part-4-what-do-we-in-scottish-labour-need-in-our-nation-s-new-political-landscape-a-leader-with-guts-to-stand-up-to-westminster-1.827310

http://www.heraldscotland.com/the-battle-for-labour-s-soul-br-part-1-westminster-1.827720

http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/ruth-wishart/are-gray-s-team-and-tactics-up-to-the-job-1.1098141 http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/herald-view/-1.1098148

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/05/snp-labour-party-scotland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Labour#Structure

http://www.heraldscotland.com/labour-split-under-pressure-1.827308 John Robertson MP, secretary of the Scottish Labour group at Westminster

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mccabe-new-scottish-labour-leader-needs-complete-control-1.886107

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mccabe-wrong-to-criticise-labour-westminster-mps-1.847487

Type
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson_%28Labour_politician%29

http://www.heraldscotland.com/labour-mp-scorns-leadership-autonomy-1.847534

http://www.heraldscotland.com/time-for-scottish-labour-to-find-its-own-voice-1.888502

http://www.heraldscotland.com/at-last-someone-has-noticed-the-elephant-1.886158

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mccabes-fall-out-over-partnership-1.841391 http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/chosen-166-who-will-go-before-constituencies-1.339802

McConnell could tell you of a dozen similar episodes, which didn't end so happily - where Westminster vetoed his attempts to get Labour into contention in Scotland. Over Iraq, Trident, asylum, immigration, attendance allowances and many other policies, McConnell struggled to free himself from a UK party line that was politically ruinous in a Scottish context. Perhaps the greatest fiasco was the council tax fudge at the Scottish election campaign in 2007, when McConnell was forced to defend a "reform" of the policy which was so incoherent he couldn't explain it at its press launch. The former First Minister wasn't even allowed to recognise that Labour had lost that election, such was the myopia of his Westminster minders.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/how-labour-lost-it-1.827505 http://www.heraldscotland.com/how-labour-lost-it-1.827505

http://www.heraldscotland.com/the-lies-1.828169 Labour in meltdown: Part one Wendy Alexander: The End - Herald Scotland Call us the government, says Salmond Next year, the SNP take Holyrood ... and Gordon Brown goes crackers

http://www.heraldscotland.com/problem-with-creating-a-leader-of-scottish-labour-1.886566 Problem with creating a leader of Scottish Labour

http://www.alba.org.uk/scot07constit/w03.html http://www.heraldscotland.com/labour-is-split-over-scottish-leader-s-power-1.826811

Scottish Labour has been the dominant political party in Scotland for over 40 years. Yet this is the first book to consider the contemporary party, analyzing it in the context of Scottish politics, Scotland, and the UK, as well as drawing on international comparisons. A range of areas is covered including: the chronology of events over the life of the party, an analysis of the party, its internal structures and culture, and its role in Scottish society, Labour's role as Scotland's leading party, its institutional role, and its wider relationship with Scottish society, the role of the Labour movement. Key themes include, the development of Scottish Labour as Scottish politics has changed with devolution, its often difficult relationship with devolution, home rule and the rise of the SNP, the impact of its relationship with the UK Labour party. Contributors include Richard Finlay, Alice Brown, Michael Keating, Douglas Fraser, Bob McLean, and Chris Harvie.

http://news.scotsman.com/scottishlabourparty/Gerry-Hassan-Talentstarved-Scottish-Labour.6572832.jp http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scottish-Labour-Party-History-Institutions/dp/product-description/0748617841

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/scottish_historical_review/v085/85.1knox.html

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/yes/scottish-labour-wheres-the-coffee the official leader is http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/gerry-hassan

Leadership
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7481274.stm

http://news.scotsman.com/henrymcleishsofficegateaffair/Will-Henry-be-left-out.2308723.jp

http://www.leftfutures.org/2011/02/parliamentary-labour-party-rules-ok-but-not-if-you-believe-in-accountability/

Labour Rule Book, Electoral Commission 

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmscotaf/77/3110402.htm

The Scottish Labour Party administers the Labour Party in Scotland on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. Those parts of Party administration which apply only in Scotland are administrated by the Scottish Executive Committee in liaison with the National Executive Committee.

pi
http://www.leftfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Labour-Party-Rule-Book-2010.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_Rule_Book

Labour Party (UK)

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/the-diary-1.174167

Electoral Commission, the Scottish Labour Party is listed as....... Accounting Unit name Scottish Labour Party Party Labour Party [The] The SLP received during quarter 4 in 2010 a total of £110,796, assuming 88% of this total came from trade unions = £97,500.48 ? off course it doesn't work this way as all TU donations will be given to the Labour HQ in London from which the Labour Party (Region-Scotland) will receive an allowance.

subsidiary "scottish labour" "accounting unit"

The Scottish Labour Party is a separate accounting unit registered with the Electoral Commission

Labour party are now afraid of being smeared as an anti-Welsh party. Well it was the Labour party headquarters in London that abolished "Welsh Labour" as an accounting unit with the Electoral commission thus all donations to "Welsh Labour" go straight to London headquarters war chest. For years the Labour party in the south Wales valleys have run a smear campaign against Plaid Cymru. With gems lik...

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scottish conservative membership http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11839934   http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2010/11/whose-party-is-it-anyway-part-one-the-problem.html conservative party constitution

Welsh Conservative Party/Scottish Conservative Party

registered as by the electoral commission

"leader of the party"

http://www.economist.com/node/18621204/comments#comments

Scottish Independence Convention http://independence-convention.blogspot.com/

Fiscal autonomy, Fossil Fuel Levy, Scotland Office

occ
www.eastdunbartonshirelabourparty.org.uk/ "scottish labour party press office"

http://www.alba.org.uk/scot07constit/n03.html

http://www.allmediascotland.com/press_news/29453/in-praise-of-pia-and-young

iain gray simon pia

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/04/snp-win-labour-miliband-party

Iain Gray: still the best man for the job

The colourful side of Labour’s Gray man http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4881250.ece

As a 24-year-old with a young wife and a two-year-old child, he spent two years in war-torn Mozambique teaching physics in Portuguese to traumatised African children. As Oxfam’s campaigns’ director in Scotland, he jetted into Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide, saw the killing fields of Cambodia and turned up in Chile in the same week as General Pinochet left office. He was dux of Inverness Royal Academy. Like Alistair Darling and Tony Blair, he attended a top Edinburgh private school. Gray is the fifth leader of the Scottish Labour MSPs in less than a decade

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Retiring-SNP-MSP-in-bitter.6759647.jp

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion/Leader-Truth-about-SNP-puts.6759508.jp

http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/roundup/articles/2011/04/28/412771-all-the-runners-in-the-race-for-scots-parliament/

site:www.timesonline.co.uk/ "iain gray"

http://politics.caledonianmercury.com/2011/04/29/conservative-campaign-diary-eight-days-of-trying-not-to-drop-the-ball/

streatms
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Labour-fears-Cameron-could-deliver.4162284.jp

Miliband warns of ‘disaster’ of SNP win

http://www.economist.com/node/18621204?story_id=18621204&fsrc=rss

http://politics.caledonianmercury.com/2011/04/28/opinion-scottish-labour-has-lost-its-fighting-spirit-%E2%80%93-and-its-soul/

http://www.iaingrayforscotland.net/home/biography

Haddington, East Lothian Scotland's pro-independence moderate left-of-centre party, led by Alex Salmond. Find out more about SNP policies, how to join and donate.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-finance/database-of-registers/statements-of-accounts/soa/pdfs/soa_26-07-10_14-39-43.pdf

source1
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/salmond-rises-in-scottish-poll-as-opponents-flounder-2277362.html

http://forargyll.com/2011/05/michael-russell-why-i-belong-to-my-party/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/01/snp-scottish-elections-labour http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11554535


 * Scottish Daily Express (73,000)
 * Scottish Daily Mail (117,000)
 * Scotsman 43,000, Scotland on Sunday
 * The Herald (53,000)
 * Daily Record, 324,000
 * Scottish Sun, News of the World, 340,000
 * The Times,23,000 Sunday Times 62,000
 * The Daily Telegraph
 * The Guardian

source2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/parties/newsid_1179000/1179151.stm

Scotland's pro-independence moderate left-of-centre party, led by Alex Salmond.

cosn
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=168993&sectioncode=26

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/opinion/Ian-Swanson-Labour-leads-but.6516774.jp?articlepage=2

bus conductor, teacher, aid worker


 * Born: June 7, 1957, Edinburgh.
 * Inverness Royal Academy
 * George Watson's College - 1 year
 * Edinburgh University 1974-1977
 * Moray House College of Education 1977-78


 * He joined the Labour Party in 1979, http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/interviews/Interview-Scottish-Labour-leader-Iain.5698266.jp


 * Maths and physics teacher, Gracemount High School 7 years 1978-1985
 * Teacher, Mozambique 1985-1987 - 2years
 * Campaigns director, Oxfam - 12 years 1987-1999
 * Labour MSP, Edinburgh Pentlands, 1999-2003
 * Deputy Minister, Health 1999-2000
 * Deputy Minister, Justice 2000-1
 * Minister for Social Justice 2001-2
 * Minister for Enterprise, Transport & Lifelong Learning 2002-3
 * Special Adviser to Scotland Office, 2003-2007
 * Labour MSP, East Lothian, 2007-present
 * Labour leader, 2008-present

http://living.scotsman.com/features/We-shouldn39t-underestimate-the-Gray.4418252.jp

He joined the Labour Club while at university but didn't get involved – "I had better things to do" he laughs – but also joined his local party when he moved to Wester Hailes, and was teaching in Gracemount High.

"I went to Gracemount in 1978 and there were kids there with difficult family backgrounds, but it was a really good school.

"Then I went to Mozambique for two years, and when I came back in 1983 it was a changed place. It sounds like a cliche but the kids had no hope.

"Even the best of them didn't believe they would ever get a job, they felt society didn't have a place for them. That's when I really got active in politics.


 * http://news.scotsman.com/scottishlabourparty/The-team-behind-the-labour.6743307.jp
 * http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/iain-gray
 * http://www.iaingray.org.uk/about-iain
 * http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/politics/articles/2011/04/28/412771-all-the-runners-in-the-race-for-scots-parliament/?mode=print
 * http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/interviews/Interview-Scottish-Labour-leader-Iain.5698266.jp
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/08/scotland.labour

About Iain Gray

Iain spent his early years in Edinburgh before his family moved to Inverness. He went to George Watson's College in Edinburgh, then the Royal Academy in Inverness, where he was awarded the school dux before returning to study Physics at Edinburgh University.

He taught Maths and Physics in Edinburgh before leaving to teach in an agricultural technical school in Mozambique.

After seven years as a teacher trying to support young people to make the best of their opportunities, and twelve years with Oxfam organising for social justice and against poverty around the world, Iain Gray stood for the Scottish Parliament because he believed that it represented the best opportunity to make his own country fairer and more successful. He has held 4 different Ministerial posts, including Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning, alongside Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish and Jack McConnell. He also spent 4 years as a Special Adviser to the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Darling. The experience gave him a unique understanding of how devolution works.

Iain became MSP for East Lothian in 2007 and was elected Leader of Labour in the Scottish Parliament in September 2008. Outside of politics, Iain is a passionate Hibs supporter. He also enjoys reading, music and films.