Scottish Labour figures are urging continued cooperation between the UK Government and the Scottish Government ahead of the appointment of a new UK prime minister. The call comes in the context of Scotland’s Holyrood election outcome in May, when Scottish Labour lost five seats after previously urging Sir Keir Starmer, then Labour’s leader, to step down.
While the reports focus on the political backdrop to the leadership transition in the UK, they present cooperation as the central theme for relations between governments. The message is that stability and working together across devolved and reserved issues should continue regardless of changes in UK leadership.
The sources do not indicate that specific policy disputes have driven the call, nor do they detail concrete agreements. Instead, they frame the upcoming period under a new prime minister as a moment for maintaining constructive cross-government engagement in Scotland.
