{"id":740805,"date":"2026-08-17T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740805\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:42:09","slug":"michael-marra-and-joe-fagan-to-contest-scottish-labour-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740805\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Marra and Joe Fagan to contest Scottish Labour leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fagan said the leadership campaign was about &#8220;more than understanding what went wrong&#8221; for the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is about what Labour does next,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is about respecting work, backing our communities and giving working people real power over the future, not asking them simply to live with decisions made elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marra said he was &#8220;humbled&#8221; to be on the ballot and looked forward to a &#8220;good spirited and comradely contest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The next leader of Scottish Labour has a huge task: to unite our party, rediscover our soul and reconnect with Scotland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am the candidate who can do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The North East Scotland MSP offered his commiserations to Lennon, who he described as &#8220;one of the most formidable and effective campaigners the Labour movement has&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fagan said the leadership campaign was about &#8220;more than understanding what went wrong&#8221; for the party. &#8220;It is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740805","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\/740805","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=740805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}