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Survation Poll Reports Record Conservative Holyrood Share

15th January 2016 Comment Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed

The Daily Record chose to headline its new Scottish poll from Survation this morning – the first of 2016, and the first of what we are told will be a regular series between now and May – as indicating that the SNP were heading for an even larger majority at Holyrood than the nationalists won […]

A Race for Second Place?

18th December 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders

This time five years ago we were wondering whether the SNP could possibly win a second Holyrood term. Three polls published in the autumn of 2010 (and there were only three) all put Labour ahead of the SNP – by between three and ten points. Far from anticipating the possibility of a SNP overall majority, […]

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate Jeremy Corbyn?

12th November 2015 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders

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On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate David Cameron?

12th November 2015 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders

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On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate Ruth Davidson?

12th November 2015 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders

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On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate Kezia Dugdale?

12th November 2015 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders

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On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate Nicola Sturgeon?

12th November 2015 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders

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Scottish Labour’s Predicament

31st October 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders Policy issues

Scottish Labour are gathered this weekend in Perth in the hope of kick-starting a revival. The party certainly badly needs to do so. The hole in which it finds itself now is as every bit as deep as the one into which it fell in May when it was all but wiped out in the […]

The SNP’s Dilemma

16th October 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders Policy issues The Scottish independence referendum

One of the key lessons of Scottish politics in the last 12 months is that referendums and parliamentary elections can present a political movement that is capable of garnering around half the vote with very different challenges. In a referendum that movement may well fail to win, as happened to Yes in September last year. […]