Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander has laid out her vision to regain power from Labour at the next Holyrood election. Here are the main points from her proposals, published in a major new policy document:
- Scottish Labour has no divine right to be elected and must work hard to win back support.
- Find a clear way to meet people's hopes and aspirations, without being deflected by false voices of opposition.
- Reach out to win backing from those who have never supported Labour.
- Scottish Labour still stands for the progressive values of justice, equality and community.
- Policies must be constantly renewed to stay in touch with changes in society.
- More personalised services from the NHS.
- Maintain pressure to ensure pupils are taught in modern buildings, but look beyond a bricks and mortar programme.
- Seek ways to guarantee all children leave primary school fully equipped for a secondary education.
- Move away from the fixation on school class sizes and look at quality teaching.
- More progress to help university entrants who genuinely cannot afford higher education.
- Engage seriously with the constitutional challenge thrown down by the SNP.
- Constitutional commission should consider both more powers for Holyrood and handing some back to Westminster.
- Consider devolving powers in areas such as welfare, work, transport and some aspects of VAT, while handing back powers, possibly in counter terrorism and contingency planning.
- It is wrong to present the Union as one in which Scotland has only benefited and not given.
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