Stephen Daisley Stephen Daisley

Has Nicola Sturgeon pulled off a second historic victory?

It’s just an exit poll. They can be wrong. They were, substantially, in 1992 and lowballed the Tory result in 2015. Those caveats stated, we have to address that number for the SNP. Fifty-five seats, every seat but four north of the border, would represent the Nationalists’ best result since 2015.

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