What is the SNP doing to stamp out its problem fringe element?
Yesterday this correspondent suggested it was time the SNP named and shamed its extremist fringe. They’ve made a belated start to stamp it out – but could they do more?
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Yesterday this correspondent suggested it was time the SNP named and shamed its extremist fringe. They’ve made a belated start to stamp it out – but could they do more?
SNP activists claim Scottish Labour was behind a dark propaganda deed to wreck its own rally in Glasgow. Come on guys.
Ed Miliband’s team has always been clear. The SNP, it argues, has nowhere else to go in a hung parliament, when it comes to votes that could bring in or vote out a Labour minority government.
This is something close to adoration, and this cannot be faked – as a seasoned correspondent you report what you see, and I have never seen this in a UK election. Never.
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What the SNP have to guard against is Acquired Sheffield Syndrome and one N Kinnock’s disastrous triumphalism.
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Our YouGov poll adds to Labour’s gloom in Scotland with one tiny qualification. There’s a chance the headline figures for MPs elected are a bit better (or less awful) than it might seem.
The SNP is poised to make big gains in Scotland, according to YouGov, but a poll for Channel 4 News suggests that tactical voting could save some Labour MPs and two Liberal Democrats.
Jim Murphy was much more on his best form than yesterday at the second Scottish leaders’ debate, taking on Nicola Sturgeon on the issue of “full fiscal autonomy.”
Nicola Sturgeon has arrived in the top job with perfect timing and it would seem, for many Scots, perfect casting.
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Alex Salmond is branded “terrifying” and “arrogant” as he sets out negotiations for any post-election SNP deal with Labour.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg rules out forming a “rag tag mob” coalition but leaves the door open to a looser pact with the Scottish National Party and Ukip.
Labour refuses to rule out a coalition with the Scottish National Party after the election, despite a poll suggesting that Ed Miliband is more unpopular in Scotland than David Cameron in Scotland.