Voters in Scotland still tend to back a party along constitutional lines.
- Professor of Politics, University of Southampton
Reassuring news after a nasty election campaign for some candidates.
The SNP are set to lose a seat in a vote triggered by a COVID scandal. But this is not one of their safer seats at the best of times.
The party’s fate is deeply tied to support or opposition to independence.
Read the constituency results to understand where the independence debate heads next.
When should you tune in for the big announcements over the weekend?
Sitting MPs toppling right, left and centre? Not necessarily. The connection between the safeness of a seat and the chances it will change hands is much looser than we might expect.
The SNP says every Scottish voter will be financially better off if they vote to leave the UK. But is that what they need to hear to vote yes in another referendum?
Those who voted No in the indyref were never as anti-blue as is often believed.
UKIP is on the march in the Thames estuary – in a seat that hardly resembles its stereotypical territory at all.
With Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in London making a speech about the failures of austerity, her appearances are coming to embody her party’s momentum in the polls. Besides a TNS poll the other…
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