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26.09.2022 - 12:57 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Two former Scottish Labour leaders have warned their party against a continued focus on more powers for Holyrood.
Lord McConnell said an “endless” debate on the subject is a “blind alley” while Jim Murphy claimed further powers are “not an alternative”.
Their comments came as Labour considers a constitutional review led by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on rewiring the British state.
A leaked draft revealed plans to replace the House of Lords and decentralise power across the UK.
The agenda also includes the next stage of devolution to the Scottish Parliament.
However, speaking at a fringe event at Labour conference in Liverpool, the two Scottish Labour veterans sounded a sceptical note.
McConnell, First Minister between 2001 and 2007, said: “We've seen an endless debate really since 2007 about more powers, which I think a blind alley.
“I think the real challenge is 'how do you change the way the British state works’ to reflect the fact that the United Kingdom is now a multinational state with different levels of legislative power in different places.
He added: “We need to be very careful that we just don't continue with an attempt to find a common ground on powers that is inconsistent.”
Murphy, who briefly led the party after the 2014 referendum, said: “My take is that the circular conversation about powers is an attempt to fix a political problem. Further powers are an important part of the political project [but] they are not an alternative.
“Often when I listen to the Scottish Labour party talking about powers, it's 'this is the one thing we believe in'.”
Murphy said the political argument had to hinge on the “fundamental nature of nationalism”, adding:
“Let's not pretend that a debate about powers is a route back to power.”
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mammoth launch of “Dahmer,” “The Watcher” adaptation drains all the potential relatability and genuine terror out of the source material. With a subtler hand, and a much shorter runtime, a film could have explored the rich themes of the dark side of upward mobility and the erosion of civility among neighbors while serving up subtle but real scares, toying with the idea that the titular letter-writer could be any smiling neighbor at the grocery store.The neighbors in Murphy’s “The Watcher” wouldn’t be even remotely recognizable in the real world, so we get none of that all-too-believable dread.
Elizabeth Taylor The premiere of Ryan Murphy’s latest true crime Netflix series, “The Watcher,” comes on the heels of the huge success of his “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” “The Watcher” is a haunting limited series based on the real-life, unsolved mystery about a family being stalked in their home. “I think there’s a real appetite for it right now,” star Naomi Watts told Variety at the show’s New York premiere at the Paris Theater on Wednesday. “I’m trying to figure out what it is, but I can theorize. But these are really dark, chaotic things going on in the world right now. I think you want to understand why these things happen and who would you be and how would you cope.”
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Netflix show ever. The platform’s statistics for the week of Oct. 3rd to the 9th showed that the drama, starring Evan Peters as notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, drew in 205.33 million hours of viewing time worldwide.
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Embattled Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross has insisted Holyrood should not be handed any new powers.
he added, “No, they don’t notify families when they do this. It’s all public record, so they don’t have to notify (or pay!) anyone.
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A Labour MSP has called for extra powers for Holyrood to be a “top priority” for a Government led by Keir Starmer.
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