Former miner Ralph Dyson has been selected by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition to fight for the seat.

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As Lula's first finance minister he was credited with reinventing the former trade-unionist along more centrist lines and persuading him of the merits of fiscal responsibility.

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The daughter of the late legendary trade unionist, Jimmy Reid, said Alex Salmond's conference speech was one of which her father would have been proud.

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