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I don't agree with her politically particularly, but some relatives of mine were very grateful for the help she gave them. She's a pretty good local MSP.

Interesting to see Starmer got the votes across the labour left, a lot of ex Corbyn supporters voted for him, as did the registered supporters. He now has the mandate to make the changes he wants to the party. That has already started with the NEC winners from the ballot, they are most definitely not 'corbynites'.

He is going to have to do a ' Harold Wilson' to a large degree and keep the left happy but he also has leeway to take the party more to the centre ground where he needs to.

He needs to keep certain policies from the last 2 manifestos. If he throws the baby out with the bath water then he may lose a lot of voters. As someone who voted for him, I am rather impressed so far. There needs to be less virtue signalling and holding the Government to account. If Labour and Starmer decide to campaign to rejoin the EU, if there is an EU that is then Labour will just keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. They need to go back to basics and focus on things like Jobs, education, NHS, transport, public investment and infrastructure. They also need to be more patriotic and talk the country up more and focus on areas like the North East, Midlands, Scotland, Wales etc instead of focusing on London and the South.

The biggest problem I think Starmer will have is Momentum, as they will be a thorn in his leadership.