Wilson Tipped To Be Labour Boss

Feb 3 2008

EX-MINISTER Allan Wilson yesterday emerged as front-runner to be Scottish Labour general secretary.

The job involves overseeing the party's reorganisation following their Holyrood defeat last May.

Wilson - who lost the Cunninghame North seat - has been acting as an advisor to Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander.

He is a former deputy enterprise minister.

Wison will be interviewed this week with three rivals.

They are former Livingston MSP Bristow Muldoon, Dumfries and Galloway councillor Colin Smyth and Andrew Rowe, a former Executive special advisor.

A Labour insider said: "Allan's time as aMSP and his background as a trade union official give him the most experience.

"It will take a lot of determination and skill to get the party in shape for the next election."