Monica Lennon has announced that she will stand to become leader of Scottish Labour.<\/p>\n
The incoming Glasgow MSP lost her seat in this year’s Holyrood election but returned to parliament after Anas Sarwar opened up a regional seat when he stepped down from Holyrood. <\/p>\n
Writing in the Sunday Mail, Lennon said her party needed “radical and fast change” or risked facing “oblivion”.<\/p>\n
She said: “Anyone looking objectively at our party today would conclude a harsh reality. We are in the last chance saloon.”<\/p>\n
The move comes after after Scottish Labour faced its worst result in the history of devolution in May.<\/p>\n
Lennon said that time away from parliament had given her “space to reflect and listen”.<\/p>\n
She said: “I’ve spoken with members and voters who feel disappointed, disillusioned, and defeated. <\/p>\n
“I’ve heard their frustration – but I’ve also felt a quiet, burning determination. Crisis demands courage.”<\/p>\n
She added that the party had “gone backwards in every Holyrood election since 1999”.<\/p>\n
“If we do not change – radically and fast – we face oblivion”, she said.<\/p>\n
“That is why I am putting myself forward to lead Scottish Labour because I can’t stand by and witness our terminal decline.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monica Lennon has announced that she will stand to become leader of Scottish Labour. The incoming Glasgow MSP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}