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Mediamasters.fm.m. And now, here's the show. This is obviously a very disappointing night

for the Labour Party. I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.

I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result

and on the policies that the party will take going forward.

It's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corbynism.

After defeating Gordon Brown's Labour in the 2010 general election, David Cameron and Nick Clegg's

Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition Government were faced with a growing constitutional question

posed by a resurgent Scottish nationalist party. In a manner that would ultimately encapsulate

his doomed tenure as Prime Minister, Cameron agreed to the SNP's request for a referendum on

Scottish independence.

Cameron's gamble was based on two assumptions.

Firstly, that a unionist victory was guaranteed,

and secondly, thinking that victory would end the question mark over the union for a generation.

The first part of Cameron's gamble paid off,

as the Labour Party campaigned alongside the coalition government and Scotland voted to

remain part of the Union by a narrower than expected 10-point margin. But instead of ending it for a

generation, the Scottish independence movement was galvanised and Cameron's naive, newfound confidence

in winning referenda would eventually lead to the constitutional quagmire of Britain's exit from the

European Union. Labour's support in Scotland collapsed following the referendum and in the 2015 general

election, Ed Miliband's party lost 40 out of their 41 seats, with only Edinburgh South's Ian

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