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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a 'Making Britain Work For Scotland' rally

Gordon Brown’s latest ‘save the Union’ plan faces reality check

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer making his speech to the Progressive Britain conference at Congress House (Pic: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Keir Starmer warns Labour faces ‘dirty and nasty’ General Election campaign

A statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous Square in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 2003 (Picture: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)

For many countries, the Iraq War is a lasting reminder of western hypocrisy

Labour leader Neil Kinnock looked set to become the next Prime Minister in the run-up to the 1992 general election, won by John Major's Conservatives (Picture: Michael Stephens/PA)

Labour landslide? Starmer looks more like Kinnock than Blair – John McLellan

Green Goddesses lined up at Redford Barracks

Remembering when workers went on strike in Scotland in 2002-03

Dr Fraser McMillan has written on the prospects for Scottish independence. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

Why calling Sturgeon's bluff may come back to haunt UK 'elites'

Keir Starmer delivers the speech in which he spoke about 'taking back control'

Readers' Letters: ‘Take back control’ doesn’t extend to Scotland

How will Scotland abolish child poverty when even relatively high-tax, wealthy countries struggle to do so (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

SNP's rhetoric about ending child poverty does not square with economic reality

The outgoing chief executive of Offshore Energies UK has warned against 'environmental populism'. Photo: Getty Images

Outgoing boss of oil and gas trade body warns against 'environmental populism'

Heather Small's son is a Labour councillor

M People founder says band are ‘livid’ at use of song at Tory Party conference

King Charles III receives Prime Minister Liz Truss in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace (Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Truss's 'New Conservative' government echoes New Labour's view of taxation

Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey (right) celebrates with Richard Foord, the newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton in the Tiverton and Honiton by-election. Picture: PA

Analysis: Why Boris Johnson is no longer a winner and is on borrowed time

Union leader Jimmy Reid addresses a mass meeting of the Upper Clyde Shipyards at Clydebank in July 1971 (Picture: Allan Milligan)

Scotland's radicals are in need of a party to call home – Kenny MacAskill MP

Boris Johnson may have convinced the British public they need a serious, even if dull, leader (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA)

How history shows UK may be ready for Starmer to replace Johnson

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking during the Scottish Labour conference at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Analysis: Anas Sarwar is joining Keir Starmer and channelling New Labour

Keir Starmer's speech may not have gone down as well in Scotland as other parts of the UK (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Starmer is trying to reinvent a Blair-style New Labour – Joyce McMillan

Tony Blair wanted to avoid international discussions about Lockerbie.

Tony Blair tried to block Nelson Mandela talking about Lockerbie bombing

Tony Blair has admitted that “weaknesses” with New Labour’s devolution policy failed to quash nationalism in Scotland, as a string of polls suggest pro-independence parties are on course to win big at May’s election.

Blair admits devolution ‘weaknesses’ failed to ‘end argument” over independence

The Statue of Former First Minister Donald Dewar one of the founding fathers of Devolution

New Labour leader must tackle SNP on its policy failures - Euan McColm

The Covid crisis means the UK needs a new contract with the public over NHS funding, which recognises the reality of an economy that will take years to recover and accepts the cost of an ageing population (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Covid crisis means we need radical reform of how NHS is funded – John McLellan

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces a battle to rebuild his party's fortunes north of the Border

It is in all our interests for Labour’s voice to be heard again - Christine Jard...

Footballer Marcus Rashford turned food poverty into a major political issue by speaking about his childhood experiences of hunger (Picture: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)

How Marcus Rashford shamed both Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer – Laura Waddell

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. (UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor)

Boris Johnson signals coronavirus lockdown will be eased on Monday

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab speaking during a remote press conference to update the nation on the Covid-19 pandemic

Dominic Raab rejects call for lockdown exit plan

Obituary: Dr Norman Godman, Labour MP who fought for the people of Greenock, Por...

Leader: New Labour leader needs to rewrite the script

Euan McColm: open season on Labour’s ‘righteous bystanders’

Tommy Sheppard: Pride and pantomime in House of Commons

Joyce McMillan: Two-party carve-up is under threat

Crunch time for Scots Labour as Corbyn heads north

Euan McColm: Corbyn would nail the lie of socialist Sturgeon

Euan McColm: No excuses for vile killer Jihadi John

Leader: Opportunity for SNP and Labour to unite

Joyce McMillan: Why ‘new powers’ won’t be enough

Gordon Brown. Picture: Getty

Gerry Hassan: Will real Gordon Brown reveal himself

Voters may see the former prime minister in a kinder light, or he may bring back too many bad memories. Picture: Reuters

Lesley Riddoch: Blast from the past, welcome or not

Labour Leader Ed Miliband. Picture: PA

Gerry Hassan: Conundrum as Miliband seeks winning formula

Ed Miliband speaking in South Shields. Picture: PA

Tom Peterkin: Miliband faces summer of discontent

Alex Massie: Forging the fiscal future

Gerry Hassan: Take heart from Irish on road to democracy

Ewan Crawford: Referendum won’t be decided by the wizards

Lesley Riddoch: Nato U-turn a sign of things to come

Leaders: SNP’s ticking timebombs

In full: Ed Miliband’s speech to the Labour conference

Interview: Tony Benn - ‘I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to...

Tony Blair would like to be prime minister again

Gerry Hassan: An island nation that tries to exist in isolation

Duncan Hamilton: Labour losing its grip as SNP takes on mantle of the people’s p...

Alexander: Labour has failed Scotland

Ed Milband promises a 'new generation' of Labour

Book review: Them and Us, by Will Hutton

Jack McConnell backs David Miliband in Labour leadership race

Defiant Gordon Brown prepares to make Commons comeback

Tony Blair memoirs: Blackmail and skulduggery at the heart of government

Tony Blair memoirs: 'I was never convinced on devolution - it was dangerous'

Alastair Campbell: Spin and soundbites only take you so far

The Scotsman Top Stories

First Minister Humza Yousaf and Scotland Secretary Alister Jack.

Has the UK Government turned into a 'Just Say No' machine?

Karen Leonard.

Hundreds of Scottish Ambulance Service workers attacked each year

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a 'Making Britain Work For Scotland' rally

Gordon Brown’s latest ‘save the Union’ plan faces reality check