Douglas Alexander

Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government created the NHS and the welfare state

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Letters: Labour should follow Attlee and spend big for growth
In 1945, the UK was flat broke. It owed the US for wartime Lend Lease programmes and its empire was imploding. What did the newly-elected Attlee Labour government do in response? It didn’t adhere to some made-up fiscal rules that artificially constrained it from acting in the people's best interest.

Mhairi Black and Douglas Alexander at the declaration of the Paisley and Renfrewshire South result in 2015

Mhairi Black and Douglas Alexander at the declaration of the Paisley and Renfrewshire South result in 2015

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Letters: Is there any hope of Scotland getting more Mhairi Blacks?

Former MP Douglas Alexander hopes to return to the Commons at the next election

Former MP Douglas Alexander hopes to return to the Commons at the next election

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Alison Rowat: Why SNP MPs should be afraid, very afraid, of a Labour victory

Humza Yousaf and President Erdogan of Turkey

Humza Yousaf and President Erdogan of Turkey

Douglas Alexander

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Former Scottish secretary questions FM's 'bizarre' meeting with Turkish president