Ross may be no James Brown, but he stuck rigidly to his line that if you wanted to stop a second independence referendum you should vote Tory. It worked: the Conservatives retained all 31 of their seats as the election broke down sharply on the constitutional question, and Ross will lead the main opposition for the next five years.
Sarwar’s four phases of leadership
I’m sure Sarwar wishes he had managed to reverse that outcome. But he didn’t think it was at all likely, and had planned accordingly. He talks of four phases to his leadership. The first was survival, which has been achieved. The next is establishing Labour and its policies as relevant to the lives of ordinary Scots, then becoming a credible opposition to the SNP, and finally a credible alternative government.
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