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Colin Fox

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Labour aren't offering real change, writes Colin Fox

COMMENT Here's why change is the one thing that Labour aren't offering
‘IT’S time for change.” “Communities are crying out for change.” “People are yearning for change.” “Voters want change and the way to get that change is to vote Labour.”

Labour aren't offering any real change, writes Colin Fox

COMMENT Colin Fox: Here's why change is the one thing that Labour aren't offering

‘IT’S time for change.” “Communities are crying out for change.” “People are yearning for change.” “Voters want change and the way to get that change is to vote Labour.”

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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves with party leader Sir Keir Starmer

COMMENT Can Scottish Labour survive a Starmer and Reeves government?

IN an article I wrote for The National earlier this month, I explained why I see Labour winning this year’s General Election yet feel a Keir Starmer premiership is likely to be overwhelmed...

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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 29: In this photo illustration, copies of "Keir Starmer: The Biography" by Tom Baldwin are seen on display in a branch of the Waterstones bookstore on February 29, 2024 in London, England. The first official biography

COMMENT The independence cause must use Keir Starmer to challenge UK's status quo

I BELIEVE the opinion polls that suggest we are heading for a Labour government at the General Election because there is an unmistakable sentiment across Britain that the Tories are past their “sell-by date” and that it is time

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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France

COMMENT The sick truth at the heart of our gravest NHS crisis: PFI

SCOTLAND’S NHS is in the grip of its worst crisis in 75 years.

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Humza Yousaf must recover the co-operative spirit of the Yes movement

COMMENT Humza Yousaf must recover the co-operative spirit of the Yes movement
MANY SNP members I talk to privately fear their party is about to embark on the same path Labour in Scotland has followed since devolution, electing a series of short lived leaders who fail to halt the decline.

NHS staff have been pushed to the limit as a 'perfect storm' of pressures puts the health service in crisis

COMMENT With the NHS in crisis, all private finance contracts must be terminated NOW

THE NHS is facing its greatest crisis yet. Everyone is agreed on that. Public confidence in, and satisfaction with, the service has never been weaker. Waiting times and waiting lists have never been longer, vacancies for staff never higher and morale never lower.

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It is now time to re-energise the Yes movement and unblock the road to a referendum

COMMENT Scotland's parliamentary route is blocked so Yes must change tack

THE UK Supreme Court’s ruling blocking a second independence referendum came as no surprise to the Scottish Socialist Party. We had warned for many months that this judgment was inevitable. This legal challenge was, in our view, always likely to end this way and the outcome signals that the parliamentary road to independence is now

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We need to understand that we Yes voters are in the minority here – and we’re trying to inflict the biggest defeat on the British state in 300 years

REVIEW Scotland Rising by Gerry Hassan: Key questions about the case for Yes left unasked

THE First Minister’s strategy for achieving independence chills me to the bone. And I’m not the only one. Why? Because having failed for eight years to persuade a majority of Scots about the merits of independence and having capitulated to Boris Johnson’s refusal to grant another referendum, Nicola Sturgeon has been reduced to begging the UK Supreme Court to override the central provisions of the 1997 Scotland Act.

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The Yes case must break away from the past

comment Yes must make the case for change - not the status quo - to win independence

I READ with interest the interview in the Sunday National with Blair Jenkins, my former colleague on the Yes Scotland Advisory Board, about organising for indyref2.

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