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Article: Glasgow East disaster persuades Kerr to run for Labour leadership
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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ANDY Kerr, many people's favourite to become the next Scottish
Labour leader, has said his party's Glasgow East by-election
disaster convinced him to stand for the job.
The East Kilbride MSP, who had been uncertain about running for
the leadership after Wendy Alexander quit, said he wanted to do what
he could to help Labour rebuild.
He is entering what many now expect to be a three-horse race,
along with Iain Gray, the finance spokesman, and Cathy Jamieson, the
deputy leader. Ken McIntosh, Labour's education spokesman, is also
said to be thinking of standing.
As they lick their wounds from the Glasgow East defeat, Labour
MSPs say they see the leadership election as an ideal opportunity to ...