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Meanwhile in Scotland … it’s still 2015
The general election was deja vu all over again north of the border, writes STEPHEN LOW
SNP candidates and supporters celebrate at the end of the night at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh

FOR Scottish Labour activists there was a hideous sense of deja vu as we watched the SNP tide flood across the country. 

It was 2015 all over again — Labour having just a single seat and the people of East Dunbartonshire returning Jo Swinson to the private sector again. 

2015 — Jo Swinson apart — wasn’t any fun either. That’s not to say the situation is lacking in irony. Indeed, it abounds with it. 

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