The Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has suggested that voters should get behind the “strongest candidate to beat the SNP” in their area ahead of next year’s general election
has suggested that voters should get behind the “strongest candidate to beat the SNP” in their area ahead of next year’s general election., Mr Ross hinted that Scottish unionists should vote tactically against the nationalist party, adding: “I will always encourage Scottish Conservative voters to vote Scottish Conservative, but I think generally the public can see, and they want the parties to accept, that where there is the strongest candidate to beat the SNP, you get behind that candidate.
“If parties maybe look a bit beyond their own narrow party agenda to what’s best for the country… what would be best is if we see this grip that the SNP has on Scotland at the moment loosened, and we see a change coming.” Labour are hoping to make inroads in dozens of Scottish seats in next year’s Westminster election, with theOpinion polls suggest the Scottish Conservatives remain a distant third across Scotland – within the past fortnight putting the SNP on 36 per cent, Labour on 31 per cent, and the Scottish Conservatives on 19 per cent.
While gains in Scotland could give Labour a major boost towards Downing Street, one Tory source told the newspaper they would “prefer” Keir Starmer to be prime minister with a majority than see him reliant on the SNP for support in exchange for an independence referendum.
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