Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and Labour MP for Edinburgh South. Please email casework to ian.murray.mp
@parliament
.uk otherwise it may be missed here.
The Scottish Parliament is one of Labour’s proudest achievements.
The next Scottish Labour Government will reset devolution and deliver the change Scotland needs.
Largest Labour lead in Scotland with ANY polling company since June 2014.
Scotland Westminster VI (8-9 May):
Labour 38% (+5)
SNP 31% (-1)
Conservative 14% (-3)
Lib Dem 8% (–)
Reform 4% (-1)
Green 4% (+2)
Alba 1% (-1)
Other 0% (–)
Changes +/- 6-7 April
New - Keir Starmer will rip up the government’s Rwanda scheme and divert £75m to tackle people-smuggling using new counter-terror powers
Our story in tonight’s
@guardian
🚨NEW Scottish Westminster VI for
@TheScotsman
📈Labour lead the SNP for first time in a Savanta poll.
🌹LAB 37% (+2)
🎗️SNP 33% (-2)
🌳CON 17% (-2)
🔶LD 7% (+1)
⬜️Other 6% (+1)
1,080 Scottish adults, 3-8 May
(change from 6-11 Oct '23)
Today we remember John Smith who died thirty years ago. I remember being with him the night before he died when he ended his speech with "all we ask is the opportunity to serve." John's whole life was a testimony to the nobility of public service.
Three decades ago I climbed the stairs in my Soho office and someone came running to tell me John Smith had died: a man I had organised a
@UKLabour
Gala Dinner for the night before. It's hard to describe those days which followed. That's how history works. Twists and turns.
Thank you for all your lovely messages. What an incredible, special day spent with family & friends. Especially my amazing parents who came here as Indian Muslim immigrants & worked so very hard. It is genuinely the honour of my life to join the House of Lords as a Labour peer.
“This is a Government whose economic policy is in tatters, whose credibility is blown, whose incompetence has been exposed”.
Today we kick off our reflections of John Smith - to mark the 30th anniversary of his death - with his response to Black Wednesday in Sept 1992
Sunak at PMQs confirms his policy to abolish NI at a cost of £46bn a year, but he says he doesn’t need to lay out how he will pay for it.
I’m not sure that’s going to wash given it can only be paid for by increasing the pension age, massive income tax rises or slashing the NHS.
An Israeli offensive in Rafah will be catastrophic. The world has warned against it.
I asked
@AndrewmitchMP
: what will the consequences be?
He didn’t have an answer.
John Swinney urged by campaigners to wipe out housing cuts - Scotland’s deepening housing emergency is a national scandal & reversing the savage cut to the housing budget is vital to preventing record breaking h’ness numbers rising ever further