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Daily Record
Daily Record
Politics
Chris McCall

EXPLAINED: Scottish labour urged to grasp the nettle and back second independence vote - The Real Truth

A former trade union boss has warned Labour’s “stagnation” in Scotland could make the idea of the party winning the next Westminster election "impossible".

Len McCluskey - who spent a decade leading the UK’s largest union, urged party chiefs north of the border to "grasp the nettle" and back holding a second independence vote.

He made the plea as he called on Anas Sarwar to adopt a more "imaginative approach" to policy, warning that without a change of tack “Labour could be lost to another generation in Scotland”.

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