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| Gray becomes Scots Labour leader | Gray becomes Scots Labour leader |
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| Iain Gray has been elected as the new Scottish Labour leader, the party has announced. | Iain Gray has been elected as the new Scottish Labour leader, the party has announced. |
| The former Scottish enterprise minister beat off competition from Andy Kerr and Cathy Jamieson, who also served in previous Scottish Government cabinets. | The former Scottish enterprise minister beat off competition from Andy Kerr and Cathy Jamieson, who also served in previous Scottish Government cabinets. |
| Mr Gray, the MSP for East Lothian, will take over from Wendy Alexander, who resigned the leadership in June. | Mr Gray, the MSP for East Lothian, will take over from Wendy Alexander, who resigned the leadership in June. |
| MSP Johann Lamont was chosen as Mr Gray's deputy. Parliamentarians, party members and unions voted. | MSP Johann Lamont was chosen as Mr Gray's deputy. Parliamentarians, party members and unions voted. |
| Mr Gray said Labour was going through a difficult period, but added that it was now time for "new conviction" in Scottish Labour. | |
| Speaking after he was unveiled as leader, he said it was time to "close the manifesto" on which Labour fought and lost the 2007 Scottish election and move forward. | |
| Mr Gray won the leadership over former justice minister Ms Jamieson and Mr Kerr, the previous health minister, despite having only returned to parliament in the 2007 election. | |
| He served as enterprise minister in the first Scottish Parliament before losing his Edinburgh Pentlands seat to the Tories' David McLetchie in 2003. |