This article is about the Scottish National Party breakaway group from Dundee. For the Scottish branch of the British Labour Party, see Scottish Labour.
Labour Party of Scotland
Founded
Early 1970s
Dissolved
24 May 1973
Headquarters
Dundee, Scotland
Ideology
Labourism Scottish nationalism
Political position
Left-wing
Politics of the United Kingdom
Political parties
Elections
The Labour Party of Scotland was a minor Scottish nationalist political party that was active in the early 1970s. Formed as a left-wing breakaway from Dundee's branch of the Scottish National Party (SNP), it is perhaps best known for standing in the Dundee East by-election of 1973, where its interference split the nationalist vote and probably cost the SNP a parliamentary seat as a result. The party contested elections to Dundee City Council two months later but was ultimately unsuccessful. It folded soon after, and by early 1974 most of its membership had returned to the SNP, whose campaigns on North Sea oil were proving popular with Scotland's urban electorate. It never had any official political representation.
William Wolfe, then leader of the SNP, dismissed the Labour Party of Scotland's founding as opportunism on the part of local politicians. These included George MacLean, the party's most popular member, whose by-election rival Gordon Wilson succeeded Wolfe in 1979.
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