SNP at risk of election wipeout in party’s Bermuda Triangle
Labour’s revival could turn Lanarkshire and Glasgow into a political graveyard for Nationalists
The SNP could be facing a political graveyard where its seats disappear at next year’s general election. Every Westminster constituency in an area that includes Glasgow and almost all of Lanarkshire is now at risk of becoming a kind of Bermuda Triangle for disappearing Nationalists thanks to the resurgence of Labour.
With a Westminster poll just over a year away, the downfall of Margaret Ferrier — the MP dubbed a “Covidiot” after travelling breaking lockdown rules — will be the first test of whether an electoral phenomenon of disappearing yellow is about to occur on a large scale.
A recall petition and a late summer by-election loom over Rutherglen & Hamilton West, a marginal seat on the Glasgow and South Lanarkshire border, with Labour confident
