Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
From what I have read - and from informed podcasts in the last week - this is a surprising and narrow win for Scottish Labour.

Starmer was kept well away from the campaign. He didn't visit once.

The pre-election polling showed that he and Reeves are not electoral assets in Scotland! The opposite.
Yeah quite a surprise I think. He knows he isn't electoral gold. Never has been really. At best he is a functional technocrat with quite impressive hair. He's certainly not inspirational.

An interesting dynamic that with SNP, Labour and Reform all pretty close as they are quite distinct yet also significant overlaps in supporters.