Scottish Labour Party (1976)
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For other political parties with the same name, see Scottish Labour Party (disambiguation).
The Scottish Labour Party (SLP) was a socialist party in Scotland that was active between 1976 and 1981. It formed as a breakaway from the UK Labour Party. It won three council seats in 1977 but lost its MPs at the 1979 election and was dissolved two years later.
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Scottish Labour Party | |
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Leader | Jim Sillars |
Founder | Jim Sillars John Robertson Alex Neil |
Founded | 18 January 1976 |
Dissolved | 1981 |
Split from | Labour Party |
Merged into | Scottish National Party |
Newspaper | Forward Scotland |
Ideology | Scottish nationalism Democratic socialism |
Political position | Left-wing |
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