Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to offer Scotland “the choice of a better future” with independence after she comfortably held off a challenge by the Scottish Labour leader in her Glasgow Southside constituency. The SNP leader won 60.2 per cent of the vote, down 1.2 percentage points, with Anas Sarwar barely making a dent in her majority when he boldly chose to challenge her on her own turf. SponsoredSarwar suffered another blow with a Labour defeat to the SNP in East Lothian, a seat Labour had held since the Scottish parliament was founded in 1999 and at Westminster from 1978 until it flipped to the SNP in 2019. Martin Whitfield, the former East Lothian MP, failed to repeat the success of Iain Gray, the former Scottish

Source: The Times May 07, 2021 10:34 UTC