He spent the last year in opposition - when I, as leader of the Labour Party in London, was fighting and winning the election against the Conservatives - on plotting inside the Labour Party to remove me, denying in public that he was doing so, just as he denied that he would stand against Frank Dobson.

BBC: McIntosh: Judge him on his record

It's an interesting issue, it's always been a matter for free votes, as you know, my own particular position has been a minority one inside the Labour Party which is in favour of the so-called middle way option of better regulation at one of the options which was flagged up by the report of Lord Burns.

BBC: News Online

These divisions occur not just between parties, but inside them, not least inside the Scottish Labour Party.

ECONOMIST: Scottish politics