Keir Starmer’s party is hopeful of winning over ‘soft nationalist’ voters in its former heartland.
Labour folk knocking on doors in Glasgow’s southside have a definite spring in their step. Unmissable in bright red jackets, they appear pleasantly surprised that once-loyal SNP voters are giving them a hearing.that the response is “night and day” from recent elections, which often saw doors slammed in their face and rude words hurled in their direction. “People are shaking my hand again.”
Yet another big change is in the wind this summer. The latest Ipsos Mori “mega-poll” forecasts that the SNP will lose all six Glasgow seats up for grabs to Labour when voters go to the polls on 4 July. “I used to vote Labour – I was swayed over to the SNP around the time of the independence referendum,” says the former bank worker. “But I think independence is a pipe dream now. It’s not going to happen.”
Polls show that between 20 and 25 per cent of Scots who voted for independence are planning to vote Labour in 4 July. Despite the apparent success in winning over “soft nationalists”, Keir Starmer’s party still has to reckon with a hardcore pro-indy vote for whom the constitutional questions remains all-consuming.
Shirley Young, a 67-year-old pro-independence socialist, is sticking with the left-wing Scottish Greens.
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