Kezia Dugdale, the deputy leader of the Scottish Labour party, has announced that she’s running for the leadership of the Scottish party following Jim Murphy’s resignation.
With Murphy not being an MSP, it has fallen to Dugdale to take on Nicola Sturgeon at First Minister’s Questions. She is generally thought to have done a good job at it, highlighting the SNP’s poor record on education. But in the current political climate in Scotland, it is highly unlikely that Labour will be able to deny the SNP a majority at next year’s Holyrood elections. So, the risk that Dugdale—who is only 33—is taking in running is relying on the Scottish Labour party not to immediately jettison its leader post-defeat in 2016.
If Dugdale wins Scotland’s three largest parties will all be led by women.
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