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  • Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale is to quit Holyrood for a job at a political think tank.
  • Dugdale is not from a Labour family.
  • A tall, soft-spoken woman, she studied law and policy first at Aberdeen University and then at Edinburgh.

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    The first time speculation surfaced that Kezia Dugdale could become the leader of Scottish Labour, there was a detractor: Dugdale. “I didn’t even expect to get elected,” the MSP told the Edinburgh Evening News in 2014. “To think three years on I could lead the party . . . well, that’s rather arrogant.” Then she stuck the knife in: “I’m a sidekick, not the superhero.”

    Dugdale, now 35, was born in Aberdeen but spent her childhood in Elgin, a small coastal town in north-east Scotland. Growing up, she was interested in football (her father was a part-time referee) and becoming a lawyer like the lead in her favourite TV show, Ally McBeal. A tall, soft-spoken woman, she studied law and policy first at Aberdeen University and then at Edinburgh. She thought the political students were geeks. Professional politics was still far away: she didn’t vote until she was 23.

    Today, Dugdale is not only the leader of Scottish Labour (and one of four openly gay Scottish leaders) but its comeback queen. The party, once the dominant force in Scottish politics, lost all but one of its 41 seats at the 2015 general election. Labour then came third (behind the SNP and the Conservatives) in the Scottish Parliament elections of 2016. In the 2017 local elections in May, it lost 133 council

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    The walk from Edinburgh Waverley station to the Scottish Parliament features nearly as many flags of the European Union as it does saltires. Draped from windows, flying proudly from souvenir shops and even pinned to one Sikh gentleman’s turban, Edinburgh wears its metropolitanism, its global reputation, its multiple languages and cultures, as a badge of honour.

    Kezia Dugdale, the former leader of Scottish Labour and the MSP for Lothian (a post she will leave in July), says she supported a second vote on EU membership “before it was cool”. She is convinced of the first vote’s “illegitimacy”. The campaign to leave, she says, ran on claims and promises that were “false”, and “the best-case scenario for Brexit in Scotland is that it doesn’t happen.”

    To her frustration, however, the Labour Party has “suffered from not having a clear position” on the EU, instead “flip-flopping” on the single market and customs union, and “glossing over” the concerns of those who voted to remain. Does she see Labour as a party in favour of Brexit? “If it’s not prepared to stop Brexit then it’s enabling Brexit… therefore, it is a Brexit party.”

    After 12 years in the Scottish Parliament – four as a researcher and adviser, eight as an elected representative – Dugdale has decided to leave H

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