GORDON Brown was back on stage this week, stumbling around like a pitiful old cabaret singer. His songs have sounded better in days gone by. Someone senior in the Labour Party really needs to sit down with Brown and gently let him down. His interventions are becoming increasingly detached from political discourse and are now actually harming Labour’s already tenuous hold on constitutional affairs. At the heart of Brown’s act is a superficially appealing idea which, like a cheap Ikea wardrobe, falls apart before it is fully formed. His intellectual instinct, borne out of decades of engaging with New Labour think-tanks, is to find a third way through any impasse.
RACHAEL Hamilton from the Scottish Conservatives has been elected as the MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire following the 2021 Scottish Parliament election contest. Voters went to the polls yesterday (Thursday, May 6), with the count held in Kelso’s Borders Event Centre today. Mrs Hamilton, who won the by-election in 2017, will return to Holyrood for another term after securing a majority of 6,863 votes. The total number of votes cast was 36,122 (turnout 64 per cent). There were 81 rejected ballot papers. In a speech following the declaration, Mrs Hamilton said the Conservatives in the Borders have been going from strength to strength . I think that speaks volumes to what the electorate want, she said. The constituents I ve been speaking to over the past few days have been absolutely resolute in the fact that they want people to be rebuilding from the pandemic - not about division and breaking up our United Kingdom.
Scottish Election 2021: Simple guide to the South Scotland regional list
There will be a number of issues for the candidates to consider in the South Scotland region.
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The South Scotland regional list could be the one to look out for when the election results start to come in on Saturday afternoon.