ALEX Salmond has been accused of leading a male-dominated, backward-looking party, characterised by old-fashioned politics where women are treated as "an afterthought".
The broadside was launched by Harriet Harman, the Deputy Labour Party leader, who visits Scotland today to help her party win in a South Lanarkshire Council by-election, which, if successful, would lead to Labour taking control of the local authority.
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