Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
A tale of two manifestos
STEPHEN LOW compares the ‘smoke and mirrors’ policy proposals of the SNP to Labour’s groundbreaking template for real change
The SNP have published their manifesto. Its 50 pages paint a picture of a party stuck in the past and concerned more with changing flags than changing lives.
The contrast with the forward-looking radicalism of Scottish Labour’s manifesto couldn’t be clearer.
Indeed even being clear is something that separates the two documents.
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