WITH all the noise from the General Election, it’s excusable not to have heard the starting pistol being fired on the 2026 Holyrood election.
WITH all the noise from the General Election, it’s excusable not to have heard the starting pistol being fired on the 2026leader Anas Sarwar was clear on the campaign trail he was viewing last week’s poll as a jumping off point for a Bute House bid in just under two years’ time.
With the party around six points behind Labour, it could find that the first two years of a Keir Starmer government could give the SNP a boost into 2026. Some fragments have been shored against the ruin, with some SNP figures picking out nuggets of optimism from the wreckage.One MP who lost their seat believed this defeat could sow the seeds of future success – and said they were “quite happy to take a step backwards to come forward again”.This would involve making sure “we have the best possible team going into that 2026 election because it will be absolutely pivotal”.
Others have made a pitch for unity within the fractured independence movement. A former MP said: “We need to seriously look at how we take our movement forward. We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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