Even Kezia Dugdale knows that people in Scotland have stopped listening to Labour altogether

Kezia Dugdale is the sixth leader of the Scottish Labour Party since it lost the 2007 Scottish Parliament election to the SNP, and the eighth of the devolved era. Such a quick turnover illustrates more than anything else the challenges she faces over the next few months. Her election – by a decisive 72 per cent of the vote – also highlights just how different Scottish politics is from that in the rest of the UK. Now two of Scotland’s main opposition parties will be led by women (the other being the Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson), both of whom are widely acknowledged as effective operators.