How Scottish Labour's Kezia Dugdale may have handed the election to the Tories

[Ken Burch]

4. More evidence that Dugdale has to go.

Scottish Labour did have an obligation to try and regain seats(any party that has had a major setback in the previous election has that obligation, to its own supporters if nothing else), but what read as an alliance with the Tories was far from the way to do it.

Without her and without al the relentless and cynical anti-Corbynism within the Scottish Labour party bureaucracy, Labour would have made a much stronger recovery in Scotland and the otherwise inexplicable Scottish Tory surge that saved Theresa May from immediate defeat in the Commons would never have occurred.

It's going to be very interesting to see how Ms. May keeps a coalition that includes both the anti-gay, anti-Catholic DUP and Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson(who is not only "out' but in a long-term partnership with an Irish Catholic) together for any length of time.

I'm glad Mhairi Black was returned. She is the conscience of the Commons in many, many respects.