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| Alexander quits as Labour leader | Alexander quits as Labour leader |
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| Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander has announced she is standing down. | Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander has announced she is standing down. |
| She said it was with "deep regret" that she was resigning following the decision of the Scottish Parliament's standards committee. | She said it was with "deep regret" that she was resigning following the decision of the Scottish Parliament's standards committee. |
| Ms Alexander has come under pressure after breaking donation rules and faces a one-day ban from parliament. | Ms Alexander has come under pressure after breaking donation rules and faces a one-day ban from parliament. |
| She said the breach of the rules was made in "good faith" and the decision of the committee was "partisan" but she respected parliamentary process. | She said the breach of the rules was made in "good faith" and the decision of the committee was "partisan" but she respected parliamentary process. |
| The Scottish Parliament's standards committee ruled that she failed to declare donations to her leadership campaign on her register of interests and recommended that she be banned from Holyrood for one day - a move MSPs will have to vote on after the summer recess in September. | The Scottish Parliament's standards committee ruled that she failed to declare donations to her leadership campaign on her register of interests and recommended that she be banned from Holyrood for one day - a move MSPs will have to vote on after the summer recess in September. |
| Ms Alexander, who will stay on as MSP for Paisley North, had said clerks to the standards committee wrongly told her it was unnecessary to declare donations. | |
| It is clear that vexatious complaints will continue to dominate the headlines as long as I remain Labour's Scottish Parliamentary Leader Wendy Alexander | |
| She later updated her register with details of the donors, who each gave about £1,000 to her campaign, after the Scottish parliamentary standards commissioner, Dr Jim Dyer, decided the donations should be treated as gifts. | She later updated her register with details of the donors, who each gave about £1,000 to her campaign, after the Scottish parliamentary standards commissioner, Dr Jim Dyer, decided the donations should be treated as gifts. |
| Speaking at Scottish Labour's headquarters in Glasgow, Ms Alexander said the row had become too much of a distraction from the issues which should be dominating public life. | |
| "My pursuers have sought the prize of political victory with little thought to the standing of the parliament," she said. | |
| "Some may feel they have achieved a political victory but wiser heads will surely question 'at what price?'" | |
| Ms Alexander added: "It is clear that vexatious complaints will continue to dominate the headlines as long as I remain Labour's Scottish Parliamentary Leader. | |
| "I cannot ask Labour supporters in Scotland for further forbearance." | |
| Scottish Labour's deputy leader, Cathy Jamieson, has taken charge ahead of a leadership contest. | |
| The committee ruling was the latest development in the saga of donations to Ms Alexander's leadership campaign. | The committee ruling was the latest development in the saga of donations to Ms Alexander's leadership campaign. |
| In a separate development, she earlier expressed "deep regret" that her team accepted an illegal £950 donation from Jersey-based businessman Paul Green. | |
| The Electoral Commission found there was not sufficient evidence in that case to prove an offence and did not report her to prosecutors. |