Labour takes on the SNP in Scotland – podcast | News

“A really typical threshold conservation would involve someone saying, ‘I’m just completely disgusted, can you do what you can to get them out?’ Kirsty McNeilLabour’s candidate for Midlothian, tells the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent Libby Brooks.

“Then I’ll have to clarify, ‘Do you mean them up the road or them down the road?’ And then they’ll say, ‘We’re actually feeling terribly disappointed in both of them.’

Libby speaks to voters and candidates in Midlothian. It is one of many battlegrounds between the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Labour. She tells Helen Peed on how the cost of living, declines in public services and SNP leadership scandals have left some voters disillusioned – and weighing their views on independence and other concerns.

Libby also spoke to the SNP candidate seeking re-election in Midlothian, Owen Thompsonfor his optimism for the party under John Sweeney.

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