LABOUR'S grip on Scotland appeared to be slipping away last night
after a new superpoll found the party was set to lose an election in
the country for the first time in half a century.
The new YouGov survey, which is the biggest sample of opinion
taken since the campaign began, found the SNP to be 8-per cent ahead
of Labour in constituencies and 5-per cent ahead in the regional list
vote.
The 10-per cent swing from Labour to the Nationalists since 2003
would install Alex Salmond as first minister and unseat some of
Labour's most senior MSPs, including health minister Andy Kerr.
It also comes four days before Scotland goes to the polls in what
is widely recognised as …
