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SCOTTISH Labour needs to stop defining itself by its opposition to the SNP and the Tories, Ken Macintosh said as he formally launched his leadership campaign yesterday.
The Eastwood MSP, who also stood to be party leader in 2011, will compete with incumbent deputy leader Kezia Dugdale for the job.
Jim Murphy is stepping down as Scottish party leader later this month after Labour lost all but one of its MPs north of the border to the SNP.
Last month, Mr Macintosh said his supporters were being “bullied and intimidated by the party machine” in an attempt to close down a leadership contest but with enough official support he is now formally launching his campaign.
He has called for a major shake-up of the way the party elects its leaders from the current electoral college system to one member, one vote.
Mr Macintosh, who wishes to be a “reformist” leader, said: “Our fightback will not be successful unless we stop defining ourselves and our party by our opponents. We need to take a fundamentally different approach to our politics.
