Local by-elections usually only attract interest as glorified opinion polls, writes polling expert James Kelly ...
THERE'S now a growing consensus that Keir Starmer has made a mess of his first three months in power, partly due to a dogmatic insistence on demonstrating "toughness" by making lower-income people suffer to plug the fiscal black hole, and partly due to inexplicable errors of personal judgment such as the accepting of lavish freebies ...
AND so we return to the little pantomime that predictably occurs every few months.
Is it really looking good for Anas Sarwar? ... Polling expert James Kelly doubts it.
ACROSS the UK, a record-breaking 66% of the electorate did not vote for the winning party, and similarly in Scotland, 64% did not vote Labour.
IN showing the SNP on 10 seats, the exit poll is towards the lower end of expectations, although the true pessimists among independence supporters might even feel a small touch of relief because previous exit polls have produced truly shocking results that were way outside the bounds of what was assumed to be possible.
THE eve-of-election Savanta poll showing a three-point SNP lead in Scotland will have provided a timely boost for Martin Docherty-Hughes, the SNP candidate for West Dunbartonshire...
Winner in 2019 of predecessor seat of Stirling: Alyn Smith (SNP)
THE ecstatic football-like chants of “Bowie! Bowie!” from Tory supporters as Andrew Bowie narrowly held off the SNP challenge in West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine will have grated on pro-independence ears in 2019, but if nothing else they were testament to how the SNP have breathed real life into Scottish politics over the last decade ...
IT’S doubtful whether there is any more persecuted segment of Scottish society in 2024 than the budding “pro-UK tactical voters” of the new Perth and Kinross-shire constituency. The contradictory demands are flying at them from all directions ...
