Uh oh. Today brings tidings of misery for hapless Humza Yousaf as a new poll reveals that support for Labour has overtaken the SNP for the first time since the 2014 indyref. The YouGov survey sees Labour on 33 per cent, up a point since October last year, while support for the Nats has gone down by two points to 31 per cent. How the mighty fall…
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour has been narrowing the gap between the two parties for the last year, with the resignation, police probe and arrest of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon providing a helping hand. Meanwhile support for independence has stagnated, with ‘yes’ stuck at six points behind ‘no’.
And it’s not good news for the Scottish Tories either, who have dropped by six points to a mere 14 per cent — something that will rather concern party leader Douglas Ross who promised his party ‘a really good general election’. Splitting the right-wing vote, the Reform party could see support grow north of the border, with the poll showing Richard Tice’s party gaining five points to seven per cent.
Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act has generated a rather large amount of online hate so far — for, em, itself — and the social media furore has extended into this week while the Daily Record finds that downloads of the SNP’s independence white papers have fallen dramatically from over 78,000 for the first document to around 3,000 for one of the latest publications. Meanwhile, news broke yesterday of the First Minister’s brother-in-law being charged for extortion and abduction after a man fell out of a window in Dundee and died. All that combined with the latest polling, it’s been a rather glib week for hapless Humza, and it’s only Wednesday…
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