SCOTLAND’S top polling expert has said that new polling shows Unionist voters are now backing Labour over the Tories as results suggest the party will return to “minnow” status north of the Border.
Professor John Curtis, of Strathclyde University, said the SNP, after 15 years in government, remained the dominant political force in Scotland and that the future of the Union looked insecure.
A YouGov poll released on Wednesday night put Nicola Sturgeon’s party on course to win 49 MPs at the next Westminster election – one more than it won in 2019.
