It will take “years” for Scottish Labour to recover from its electoral wipeout at the hands of the SNP, the party’s new leader has said, insisting that she has a mandate to remain in her post until long after next year’s Holyrood election. With the SNP on course to record another landslide victory at the Scottish Parliament election in eight months’ time, Kezia Dugdale said she “wouldn’t want to put a number” on the number of years it would take Labour to win back the trust of voters. In an interview with The Independent, she said her “mission” as leader was to remind people what her party stood for and open the door to a “new generation” of activists with similar values, signalling a return...
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