Labour MSP for Lothian Neil Findlay announced today that he will resign his seat in the Scottish Parliament at the next election in 2021.
He also intimated to Richard Leonard the Labour Leader in Scotland that he will step down immediately from all front bench positions.
He said : “There is a big world outside the Holyrood bubble, life is too short to be involved in endless internal battles with people who are supposed to be on the same side.”
Today I resigned from my positions in the Scottish Labour Party -I will stand down from parliament at the election – there is a big world outside the Holyrood bubble, life is too short to be involved in endless internal battles with people who are supposed to be on the same side pic.twitter.com/j3MBEIfm6D
— Neil Findlay MSP (@NeilFindlay_MSP) May 28, 2019
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