Scottish Greens must focus on working-class vote, says leadership candidate
MSP Gillian Mackay says party must broaden appeal beyond middle-class urbanites The Scottish Greens have to broaden their appeal beyond middle-class urbanites by talking to voters in industrial towns facing wholesale job losses, a Green leadership candidate says.Gillian Mackay is one of four...
<p>MSP Gillian Mackay says party must broaden appeal beyond middle-class urbanites </p><p>The Scottish Greens have to broaden their appeal beyond middle-class urbanites by talking to voters in industrial towns facing wholesale job losses, a Green leadership candidate says.</p><p>Gillian Mackay is one of four Scottish Greens bidding to win two co-leader posts after Patrick Harvie, the UK’s longest-serving party leader, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/02/patrick-harvie-to-stand-down-as-co-leader-of-scottish-greens">quit as co-convener</a> earlier this year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/13/scottish-greens-must-broaden-appeal-beyond-middle-class-urbanites-says-leadership-candidate">Continue reading...</a>
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