The Parallels Between Labour and the Scottish Parliament

I remember you telling me an extraordinary sort of almost Shakespearean story after the 92 election. I think you met an asymmetry didn't you after that defeat in 92? That's true. Now, why did Labour lose that one? Here there was a new Tory Prime Minister, John Major,. hence the parallels that some are making now. If you're judged to be incredible on sound money on the public finances, then you can deliver the radical policies that want to happen. There's never a curious paradox, if more the public trusts your plans, the more they trust you. And in that sense, the lesson I draw from 1992 is that work Keir Hardie and his colleagues have been