Labour has ‘largely lost’ its gains in Scotland, says polling expert

Anas Sarwar and Sir Keir Starmer led Labour to victory north and south of the border in last year’s general election (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

Gains Labour made last year when Sir Keir Starmer won a landslide Westminster election have “largely been lost”, a polling expert has said.

Mark Diffley, founder of the research agency Diffley Partnership, was speaking as a new poll showed the SNP comfortably ahead of Scottish Labour in the run up to next May’s Holyrood election.