UNTIL recently, the SNP had reason to be grateful that Glenrothes was a former traditional Labour heartland where the Tories are still…
are still regarded with customary hostility, because otherwise the surprisingly high amount of local anti-European Union sentiment might have proved to be a difficulty in 2017 and 2019.
That said, there are plenty of other indicators that the SNP may actually be better placed to hold Labour off than in many other seats.constituency of Central Fife for the SNP in 2007, even though it had been the seemingly safe seat of former Labour first minister Henry McLeish just four years earlier. And 2007 was an election in which the SNP only won just over a quarter of constituencies in Scotland and were less than one point ahead of Labour in the national popular vote.
Unfortunately the boundary revision has muddied the waters slightly. On the notional results from 2019, the SNP majority in the new Glenrothes and Mid Fife seat is only 22 points, which on paper means Labour could make the gain even if they are as much as four points behind across Scotland. Grant will take with him bittersweet memories of his electoral battles in Glenrothes, because although he eventually won there on three occasions, he was also famously the losing SNP candidate in the constituency’s 2008 by-election, a slugfest that one or two over-excitable observers at the time considered to have historical significance on a par with the Battle of Stalingrad.
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