An Endorsement Tom Harris MP Does Not Need

As the cousins celebrate the most genial holiday of them all, there are many things one for which one should be thankful. Not having a vote in the leadership contest currently gripping the Scottish Labour party comes pretty near the top of the list. Nevertheless and unlike Ed Miliband I can at least name each of the three candidates for this miserable prize. And like Kate Higgins, were I burdened with a vote in this contest, I should vote for Tom Harris.

Granted, he will have to find himself a seat at Holyrood at some point but that’s a technical detail which need not concern the rest of us. Granted too, I suspect he needs more than an anti-Salmond agenda to really prosper. As the Burd says, Mr Harris is a Blairite and the fact that this is, as she says, “almost a swear word in Scottish political circles” is evidence enough of much of what has been wrong with the Labour party in Scotland.