Talk:Centre for Scottish Public Policy
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Can anyone provide sourcing for this--would be good to give a more complete ref to the Herald article at least:
- Rosemary McKenna: Labour MP. On the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee which enquired into "welfare to work". The Herald of 24/3/97 reported that McKenna's appointment to the seat of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth was accompanied by the purge of the Home rule faction of the local party at the conference in Inverness. Fears were voiced that this had been "engineered to give a clear run to councillor Rosemary McKenna, who is a leading figure in Network, the pro-leadership grouping which orchestrated the Inverness slate". The Network has been described as "garrulous college leavers anxious to be seen doing the leader's bidding." Its origins are said to be in Jim Murphy, another new MP and responsible for the acceptance of student loans while President of the NUS. He was assigned as "special projects officer" by those in the Scottish Labour Party hierarchy anxious to bee seen as Blairite. The big "success" of the network was McKenna's election. Jim Murphy also spoke at the conference.
--Claire Robinson 16:21, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
