Neil Findlay’s resignation from the Labour Party is a signal of deeper change and crisis in UK politics but also a momentous moment for Scottish Labour, who were trying to organise for the Holrood Elections next year.

In a scathing visceral letter to Keir Starmer Findlay takes no prisoners: “A party that gave assurances to voters that “change” was coming but failed to tell them that the “change” they meant was to impoverish pensioners through cuts to their winter fuel allowance, betray WASPI women by refusing to compensate them for the states’ failure, punish defenceless children by maintaining the horrific two-child cap, abandon the Grangemouth workers and now attack the long term sick and disabled by slashing social security payments (I refuse to call them benefits or welfare). Al of this to fund increased spending on the UK war machine – weapons that will be used to kill and injure innocent men women and children in far-off lands”