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Iain Gray under fire after poor show in new poll - IAIN GRAY's leadership of Scottish Labour's election campaign was under attack by his own allies last night as an exclusive poll revealed his party is now haemorrhagin

Coalition rift over intern allocations - DAVID Cameron yesterday appeared to undermine his Liberal Democrat partners when he defended the allocation of internship placements to the children of friends and colleagues.

Eddie Barnes: concerns of leaking support in once-solid constituencies is a measure of the task facing Iain Gray - 'It's an in-born thing," the old man says of the area's support for Labour. "It's very hard to get away from it. I don't think the SNP will do it.

Kenny Farquharson: What Labour needs is some six appeal - SCOTLAND has been a divided nation over the past few days. I don't mean divided between Catholic and Protestant, although that has occasionally been making the news of la

Aidan Smith: Annabel Goldie risks becoming a national institution, despite her politics - THE leader of the Scottish Conservatives, possibly our most famous spinster, is describing the previous evening at home. Nipping into Marks & Spencer, Annabel Goldie bough

Target voters: OAPs - THURSDAY, for the pensioners of the Whiteinch area of Glasgow, means exercise class. Leotards are not required; this select group meets in the communal lounge of a sheltered h

Peter Ross: Socialists who go it alone - ON A long, sun-baked Good Friday, a woman in her early fifties is sitting behind a trestle table in the pedestrianised shopping street in Motherwell. She has short silver hair

Gerald Warner: AV or not AV: that is the question we can't be bothered with - COO! Look at that: David Cameron sharing a platform with John Reid - there's ecumenical for you. It is testimony to the gravity of the threat posed by the Alternative Vote

John Curtice: The OAP vote - THEY are a group no politician can afford to ignore. They account for more than a quarter of Scotland's adult population. Particularly likely to vote, they may well be res

Have I got bleeps for you: BBC gags MP - A CONSERVATIVE MP's comments were bleeped out of a BBC quiz show after she came close to revealing the name of a footballer who is the subject of a so-called super-injunct

Iain Gray insists he has no fears of losing his seat - THE Labour leader Iain Gray yesterday claimed he was not worried by predictions he could lose his East Lothian seat despite a poll suggesting he would fail to make it back to

Labour leader Ed Miliband will go under knife to have restful nights - LABOUR leader Ed Miliband is to have nasal surgery which will transform his speaking voice.

Gerry Hassan: Time to get real on what we mean by independence - The Scottish Parliament elections seem to be being determined on competence, trust and leadership. The record of the SNP administration, Alex Salmond's leadership, and who

Tommy Sheridan's jailing has 'helped his party's chances' for Holyrood - The party of the jailed politician Tommy Sheridan yesterday launched its manifesto for the Scottish election.

Alex Salmond pledges scholarships for children of military killed in action - ALEX Salmond yesterday pledged to introduce scholarships for the children of servicemen and women killed in action when he visited the Erskine Home in Bishopton, Renfrewshire,

Gordon Brown takes up post of economic adviser - Gordon Brown has been appointed as an adviser to the World Economic Forum on tackling global issues.

Sir Menzies Campbell banks on job creation - The former UK leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, above, yesterday campaigned in Selkirk to highlight the party's plan for regional development banks, w

'Builders back mortgage plan' - Labour yesterday claimed the support of leading figures from the construction industry for its plan to help 2,000 first-time buyers who have small deposits.

Election diary: Watch out - he's got a bun - You might think it would be pretty discouraging being a Labour campaigner at the moment, with the SNP doing so well in the polls.

Election diary: Not-so-big cheese defects to the SNP - Most thought the departure of Jamie Stone from the Lib Dem benches at Holyrood would mean the end of references to the Stone cheese-making dynasty in Scottish politics.

Plan for criminals to fund victim services - Iain Gray yesterday claimed that Labour was the only party to stand up for the victims of crime as he highlighted figures that showed more than 700 violent crimes were commit