Might Labour keep Scotland after all? I’m told Labour HQ in Glasgow is fairly chirpy this evening. The YouGov poll predicting their defeat doesn’t chime with what they’ve picked up from postal voting, nor the gossip from the exit polls. I can well believe this. There is something in the DNA of Scots, which makes them take a step back in the privacy of the polling booth before voting nationalist. Scotland is the story of the elections. Gordon Brown has been campaigning there pretty much non-stop. If Labour does survive today’s vote then the headline on Saturday’s papers will be “Gordon Brown saves the union”. All exciting stuff. For the first time since 1955, the vote in Scotland genuinely seems to be on a knife-edge.
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