“Nicola Sturgeon was the be-all and end-all for the SNP” was how Aisha, an insurance worker, explained why she was wavering about whether to stick with the Scottish National party or switch her backing to Labour in the general election.
In doing so, she summed up the mood of a group of eight undecided voters in the Edinburgh North and Leith constituency facing the competing pressures of wanting to ensure a strong voice for Scotland in Westminster, exhaustion with the SNP’s travails of the past year, and questions over what Labour would actually do in office.