Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar during an event in Edinburgh to welcome new Labour MPs in Scotland, following Labour's victory in the 2024 General Election, July 7, 2024
POLLS showing Scottish Labour is likely to lose seats at the next Holyrood election are a “disaster” for the party, a former Labour MSP warns — but one that may be beyond its power to fix.
A poll carried out for The Herald by Find Out Now suggested pro-independence parties would hold a majority — the Scottish National Party (SNP) winning 51 seats (a loss of 13 on current numbers) according to analysis by Sir John Curtice, the Scottish Greens 15 (an increase of eight) and Alba eight (up seven), making 74 of the 129 available.
To form a governing coalition this would require a patch-up of the ruptured SNP-Green alliance, which broke up over divisions on climate and social policy, including over responses to the Cass Review into treatment of children with gender dysphoria.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
