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Local elections: Scottish Tories hopeful
Scottish Tories are reporting that they could be on a bit of a surge.
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Parliament has published its register of MPs’ financial interests for the first time since the election. An analysis by FactCheck shows that 123 MPs earn extra money by renting out homes and private property. Landlord MPs account for almost a fifth of all MPs. Their properties include houses, flats, farms, holiday cottages and shops. The MPs include chancellor…
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The two biggest parties increased their share of the vote, and smaller parties were generally squeezed out.
Just days before the election, Theresa May has made a campaign visit to Edinburgh, declaring herself a “passionate Unionist”. The Conservatives hope to capture seats on Thursday, but the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon thinks her party could deny Mrs May a Westminster majority.
The latest poll of voting intentions in Scotland puts Labour and the Conservatives running neck-and-neck behind the SNP. Both have 25%, the SNP 43% and the Lib Dems just 5 per cent.
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has changed his mind and is now taking part in tonight’s televised debate. The Prime Minister won’t be turning up, saying she’s taking questions “up and round the country” instead.
Theresa May took to Facebook at the weekend to declare she was just six seats away from losing to Jeremy Corbyn. You might think that this is an incredible reversal of fortunes for the party that’s consistently held a double-digit lead in the polls since the election was called. But as FactCheck discovers, things are not quite as they seem.
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond.
Joining me here in the studio is John Nicolson from the SNP, Baroness Olly Grender of the Lib Dems, and Richard Burgon, the Labour shadow justice secretary. We’re also joined by the Conservative Housing Minister Gavin Barwell, but he’s refusing to debate anybody else so we’ll talk to him separately.
The local elections in England have actually gone a lot worse for Labour than Rallings and Thrasher predicted.
Scottish Tories are reporting that they could be on a bit of a surge.
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With me now are Kezia Dugdale, leader of the Scottish Labour party and the SNP’s Derek Mackay who is Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution.