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ON MAY 8, the Scottish Parliament is set to look markedly different. Alongside the familiar party colours that symbolise the Scottish political Establishment will arrive Reform UK as the supposedly insurgent party ready to shake things up  Reform promises everything will be better except for immigrants
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 This article is based on a speech delivered by Brian Leishman MP for the Morning Star Fringe at the STUC Congress, April 21st 2026.
We had a decade and a half of austerity where the richest won and communities all over the country were ripped apart. The poorest and most vulnerable in society have been put back into Victorian era poverty.  Staff and students protesting the cuts at Dundee University The AGM of the Unite West of Scotland Branch, which I chair, was a tense affair because the main components of the branch, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) and Glasgow School of Arts (GSA) both face funding crises.
 The Scottish Labour Party describes itself as “the party of devolution” but is that commitment shared by this Labour government?
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