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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

SNP would be ‘complacent’ to think Holyrood election is ‘in the bag’ – Alexander

Scottish Labour election chairman Douglas Alexander said that the SNP would be ‘complacent’ to think May’s Holyrood vote is ‘in the bag’ (Maja Smiejkowska/PA) -

The joint head of Scottish Labour’s election campaign accepted the party is the “underdog” for May’s Holyrood vote – but insisted the SNP would be being “complacent” if they “think they have this election in the bag”.

Douglas Alexander also vowed his party would “learn lessons” from Labour’s defeat in the Gorton and Denton Westminster by-election, where Sir Keir Starmer’s party was defeated by the Greens.

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