LATEST NEWS FROM SCOTTISH LABOUR

Scottish Labour Leader Johann Lamont has called on the First Minister to order an immediate review of the Forth crossing contract. It has emerged that Scottish businesses have seen just £20 million of the £1.6 billion being spent on the...

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Speaking about today's annoucement from Clydesdale Bank, Labour MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun and Shadow Treasury Minister Cathy Jamieson said: "Staff will be worried about what this means for jobs and careers and we need urgent clarification from the...

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The world’s three leading credit rating agencies have contradicted claims by the SNP that Scotland would have triple-A status if it separated from the United Kingdon. The Financial Times reports that Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch have...

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Scottish Labour has criticised the SNP Government for its failure to invest in the NHS after a report highlighted that 88 per cent of hospitals in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area are ‘not satisfactory’. The paper shows that 15...

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Johann Lamont, Scottish Labour leader, today accused Alex Salmond of being the 'Fred Goodwin of Scottish politics'. She compared the disgraced banker’s arrogance over the ABN AMRO deal to the First Minister’s faltering case for independence The Labour Leader told...

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Speaking following a meeting of National Economic Forum in Edinburgh, which discussed efforts to tackle youth unemployment in Scotland, Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont, said: “I am disappointed that Angela Constance chose to highlight what she sees as the limitations...

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SNP proposals for a separate Scotland to continue to use sterling were thrown into confusion today, after one of Alex Salmond’s most respected economic advisers criticised the idea. Professor John Kay, who served on the SNP Government’s Council of Economic...

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Speech by Ed Miliband. Glasgow, 30 January 2012 Let me start directly by talking about the developments on the issue of RBS bonuses. Stephen Hester has done the right thing. I welcome his decision not to take his bonus. But...

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Scottish Labour has today called on the First Minister to break his silence on the £963,000 bonus awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester. Labour Shadow Treasury Minister, Cathy Jamieson MP, said: “Alex Salmond’s silence on Stephen Hester’s...

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The Scottish Labour leader today accused the First Minister of taking ‘unnecessary risks’ with people’s finances by insisting the Bank of England will be the lender of last resort in an independent Scotland. Johann Lamont, Scottish Labour Leader, said: “The...

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