Can Labour revive its fortunes in Scotland?

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Can Labour revive its fortunes in Scotland?
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The party hopes its proposed constitutional reforms will improve its electoral chances north of the border.

But it means there are not many big-ticket items left to promise. Perhaps the headline measure promised for Scotland is a more explicit devolved veto over Westminster lawmaking which crosses into devolved areas.

With plans for an independence referendum in October 2023 having hit the buffers, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has suggested she will use the next election as a single-issue poll on the constitutional issue. Labour's plan is to find a position that it can sell as less of a gamble than leaving the UK, but still a convincing step up from how things stand now.

Certainly, the party's spell in the wilderness of Westminster opposition has coincided with a collapse in representation north of the border, with a single Scottish Labour MP clinging on compared to the scores returned in years gone by. Of course, he would far rather win a majority on his own, without having to rely on support from any other party.

But when we do eventually get to an election, Labour does not have a huge list of obvious target seats in Scotland. Every other constituency that Labour might be looking at has a double-digit majority. Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill is the next most marginal, at 11.7%.

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