UNCIVIL WAR

Labour MP's fury as Scots secretary sacking blamed on failure to attend party away day

- BY PAUL HUTCHEON

CIVIL war has broken out in Labour over claims Ian Murray was sacked from the Cabinet for not coming to Scotland enough.

A party MP rejected the allegation against the axed Scottish secretary as “completely and utterly false”.

The MP also put the boot into Murray's successor Douglas Alexander by dismissing him as unpopular among party members.

Murray was brutally sacked by Keir Starmer on Friday while he attended an event with his beloved Hearts FC.

The firing triggered abacklash and Murray was brought back into government as a junior minister just one day later.

As revealed by the Record, the Edinburgh South MP was stripped of his Cabinet post amid concerns he did not spend enough time on political duties in Scotland.

Murray swerved a Holyrood election away day for MPs and MSPs last month in Stirling, a no-show that angered Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar's team.