Can pavement politics save some Scottish Labour MPs?

If some polls are to be believed, Labour won’t exist in Scotland after next week. All suggest it will be a considerably pruned branch of the party. Whatever happens, the campaign Scottish Labour has had to fight since the referendum shows a party coming to terms with the shocking realisation that safe seats cannot stay safe if you don’t bother to talk to voters in them.

One Labour MP is notorious among colleagues for boasting in the years before this election that his canvassing involved walking around in the high street of his constituency and marking down people who greeted him as Labour voters. What a shock this election, where the party is having to go to those voters’ homes, knock on their doors and make an effort with them, must be.

Still, even though today’s STV poll suggests there will be no Labour seats left in Scotland from next week – and this is not based on individual seat polling, so should be treated with some caution – there are some constituencies that the party regards as a bit safer than others.