What was a marginal seat, with the victorious labour candidate notching up a majority of more than 9,000 votes, his party describing it as a seismic and historic win. They said that we couldnt change the labour party, and we did it. They said that we couldnt win in the south of england and the north of england, and we did it. They said, youll never beat the snp in scotland, and, rutherglen, you did it. From the partys leader to activists working the streets, labour poured resources into this constituency and their win was much, much bigger than many had expected. Michael shanks, Scottish Labour party, 17,841. Labour winning double the votes cast for the snp. The party of power at holyrood faced challenges going into the vote and had been managing expectations of a win, but even so, this was a bruising result for them. I do recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and as a party, we need to come together collectively to right the wrongs that have happened in the last few mont
Of our conference in liverpool. You know, that were about to go to now making a positive case for change. But blair rates are urging you to be more radical to get you into number ten. Are you the man really to lead the party for that Radical Change for labour . Ive had clarity of strategy since the very first day i took over as leader. Is there clarity on hs2 and the two Child Benefit Cap . We had to change the labour party first. We had to expose both the tories and the snp is not fit to govern. And then we needed to lay out our positive case for change, which is what were doing at our conference. According to my strategy, when i started this strategy three and a half years ago, most people said to me, good luck, but youll never achieve it. Within five years, weve put ourselves in a position where we are credible contenders who humbly accept the victories that weve had, but know that we must work even harder to earn the trust and faith of voters as we go into that General Election. Ju
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