A Keir Starmer government is the last hope unionists have of stopping Scottish independence ✍️ paulwaugh for ipaperviews
The Labour leader’s allies believe the big poll lead over the Tories is a ‘gamechanger’ that will focus attention on policies other than the break-up of the UKPaul Waugh: ‘For all the impressive strength shown by Nicola Sturgeon’s party this week, Labour believes that her dream of independence may have seen its high water mark’
Immediately after PMQs, the SNP also won an Urgent Question on the Supreme Court decision, offering yet another chance toBy the evening, amid a series of rallies across Scotland, Sturgeon was leading the evening news bulletins south and north of the border as she made her case that the next general election would now have to be a “de facto” referendum on her country’s place in the Union.
Yet for all the impressive strength shown by Sturgeon’s party this week, Labour believes that her dream of independence may have seen its high water mark. And the reason is Keir Starmer’s huge lead in the national opinion polls, sparked by that extraordinary Kwasi Kwarteng mini-Budget and fuelled by weeks of total Tory chaos.
One key insider tells me that the poll to watch is that which asks Scots who they think will be the next PM. And from just 7 per cent thinking Starmer would form a Government in 2020, that figure was recently 49 per cent. “That’s the game-changer for us,” they say. “Scots like to back a winner.” The likely removal of the bogeyman of a Conservative government is why Labour strategists believe the framing of the next election is so crucial. Instead of asking who is best placed to oppose the Tories at national level, they want the question to be who is best placed to replace the Tories at national level.
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