As Scotland’s embattled First Minister continues to face backlash over his Hate Crime Act, his party has been hit with yet more bad news. New polling from YouGov suggests that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party will become the largest party in Scotland, taking 28 seats and pushing the SNP into second place. The Nats are predicted to lose almost 25 of their Westminster seats, retaining just 19, the next time the electorate head to the ballot box.
The MRP poll suggests that Labour will sweep up across Scotland’s central belt – widely regarded within the Scottish party as being ‘the first red wall to fall’ – and is even predicted to take some Glasgow constituencies. Na h-Eileanan an Iar is also predicted to elect its Labour candidate, former Daily Record journalist Torcuil Crichton, following the expulsion of the constituency’s current MP Angus MacNeil from the SNP last year.
But it’s not just the Nats that will find the new survey hard to stomach.
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