How Labour has Squandered Our Nation's Trust

Daily MailMay 04, 2007

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ALL changed, changed utterly,' wrote WB Yeats o f the Easter 1916 uprising that set Ireland on course to independence. Something as epochal happened in Scotland yesterday.

The era of Labour total domination is at an end. The party that created Holyrood because it imagined devolution would cement its hold on power has been humbled by its own creation. Whatever happens in the unseemly horse-trading of today, Scotland and Labour are no longer synonymous. That reality transmits shockwaves throughout British politics.

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How Labour has Squandered Our Nation's Trust

Men were still in demob suits and India was part of the Empire when a Labour Party membership card became a passport to influence in Scotland.

From the moment Nazi Germany surrendered, Labour had a special relationship with this country. Its tentacles spread through local councils and trade union branches. It contro...

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