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- Title
Whatever Happened to the Progressive Case for the Union? How Scottish Labour's Failure to Subsume a Clearly Left of Centre Identity with a Pro-Union One Helps to Explain Its Decline.
- Authors
Wright, Kieran
- Abstract
This article presents an original account of the tactical options available to political parties in multi-level settings. It applies that framework to the case of post-devolution Scotland via an analysis of First Minister's Questions sessions in the Scottish Parliament. It shows how Scottish Labour adopted a less left-leaning justification for its stance on the constitutional issue in the years after the party lost power at Holyrood to the Scottish National Party. Consequently, the party failed to present itself as a clearly left of centre alternative to the SNP and downplayed the progressive case for Scotland remaining in the UK.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND. Parliament; SCOTTISH National Party; POLITICAL parties; REFERENDUM
- Publication
Parliamentary Affairs, 2022, Vol 75, Issue 3, p616
- ISSN
0031-2290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pa/gsab014