The runners and riders in the race to become the new general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party have been unveiled as a senior party organiser, a conservation campaigner, a former MSP and the son of an MP.
The runners and riders in the race to become the new general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party have been unveiled as a senior party organiser, a conservation campaigner, a former MSP and the son of an MP.
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exclusive By Paul Hutcheon
The quartet will be interviewed for the internal post in the New Year as Labour looks ahead to the independence referendum and the next Holyrood election.
The vacancy was created earlier this year when Colin Smyth stood down from the job amid claims of a turf war.
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