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New polling from Survation suggests Labour could win as many seats in Scotland at the next election as the SNP, the Times reports. In his story, Kieran Andrews reports:
The research found that, although the SNP is still narrowly ahead of Labour in terms of popular support, just two points separate the parties.
The SNP was backed by 37 per cent of the public, while 35 per cent said they intended to vote for Labour. This is the highest level of support for Sir Keir Starmer’s party since 2014, in polling undertaken by Survation, who carried out the research for True North, a strategic advisory firm.
It found that the Conservatives had the support of 17 per cent of people, the Liberal Democrats had 6 per cent and other parties had 5 per cent.
Analysis by Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, said this would leave the SNP and Labour each with 24 MPs under current boundaries.
1h ago07.38 EDTNadine Dorries should lose party whip if she does not resign, says senior Tory
Caroline Nokes, the Conservative MP who chairs the Commons women and equalities committee, has told Times Radio that if Nadine Dorries does not resign from parliament, as she said she would, she should lose the Tory whip. Nokes said:
She shouldn’t have the Tory whip if she’s made it plain that she no longer wishes to be a Conservative MP but can’t take that final step towards resignation. I think she needs to crack on and do that.
Withdrawing the whip would allow the Conservative party to register its disapproval of Dorries, who is facing growing criticism for not resigning as she said she would even though she appears to be doing little or no work on behalf of her constituents. But it would have no practical effect on Dorries – other than preventing her being a candidate at the next election, which presumably she does not want anyway.
And Damian Green, the former first secretary of state, told the same programme that Dorries should resign immediately. He said:
She’s not just damaging parliament, she is damaging her own reputation as well, I think. Having said she’s going to go, it would be in everyone’s interest if she just went.
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