Tartan Hero (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Thank fully even the Daily Record has now caught up with what we all suspected or knew all along. Not only did Wendy Alexander fail to understand the rules of political fundraising in general, she failed to understand them as a parliamentarian, and she allowed her campaign team to lie right, left and centre as soon as journalists started sniffing round her campaign. Yet not one of the team has been...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Just a bit of fun, but I thought we'd have a little competition today (with no prize...) whereby I ask you to suggest titles for the following politicians' autobiographies. Or feel free to suggest some others... 1. Hazel Blears 2. David Davis 3. Vince Cable 4. Wendy Alexander 5. Michael Martin
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
WENDY Alexander could have avoided suspension from the Scottish Parliament – and her subsequent downfall as Labour Party leader – had she sought advice from the standards cler
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Wendy Alexander was advised that donations to her Scottish Labour leadership campaign should be declared, it emerges.
The Firefox Chronicles (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Would it be too tragic to quote Oscar Wilde’s Requiscat in memory of Wendy’s passing? I don’t think so. Jesus… there were some days when she faced off against Alex Salmond and the Labour Party would’ve been just as well playing a tape recording of an Elk braying in pain over an arpeggio on a Casio Keyboard. Who WOULDN’T miss that lack of ability? To the tune of “Mandy” by Barry Manilow Well you came...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Just who are the runners and riders in the race to replace Wendy Alexander? Alyssa McDonald takes a look Leading the opposition against the SNP's charismatic Alex Salmond wouldn't have been an easy task for anyone, never mind a politician who had been collared for accepting an illegal donation within weeks of taking the job. In the end Wendy Alexander - leader of the Scottish Labour party, and one...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The battle to replace Wendy Alexander as Labour's leader at Holyrood has been postponed until after the Glasgow East by-election and a result is not expected until late September.
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
For 50 years, Scotland was unshakeably Labour. But a string of party blunders has lost it - and the Union - to the Nationalists For someone so intelligent, it was a pretty dumb way to lose your job. The Sorbonne-educated Wendy Alexander was feted as the brightest and the best the Scottish Labour Party had to offer. Yet she was forced to resign as leader because of her failure to register a few hundred...
The 'Our Scotland' Blog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Wendy Alexander last week! Nicol Stephen this week! Annabel Goldie next week?
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Nicol Stephen, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, has unexpectedly resigned citing the strains of the job on his family life, less than a week after Wendy Alexander, his Labour counterpart, stepped down
Mandate Communications blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Gordon Brown entered PMQs today after a torrid week which saw the year anniversary of his long awaited premiership marked by a disastrous election result in Henley with Labour coming fifth behind the BNP. The weekend brought further bad news with his trusted leader in Scotland, Wendy Alexander, stepping down after being embroiled in questions [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Labour will not begin the process of choosing a successor to Wendy Alexander until after the Glasgow East byelection later this month, party bosses confirmed today
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
It seems to me that Wendy Alexander used the Holyrood Standards Committee's rebuke as a fig leaf to resign before she was pushed out by her Labour colleagues (your rep
Clairwil (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Hello, I see Charlie Gordon has hopes of carrying on where Wendy Alexander left off. In the interests of comedy I wish him every success and would direct you all to a previous post I wrote about this amusing fellow. Cheerio Top Stories
The Herald (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Former Glasgow Council boss Charlie Gordon has joined those seeking support for a tilt at the Labour leadership at Holyrood, following the resignation of Wendy Alexander on Saturday.
