 | 'The superpoll, an average of every Scottish element of 10 UK polls published since October, shows the SNP on 35.3 %, up 17 %, compared with Labour on 30.7 %, down nine points. The Tories were on 17.2 %, up one point, while the Lib Dems were on 11.3 %, down 12 points.' James Hamilton in the Sunday Herald, 30 th December 2007. |  |
A buoyant SNP last night claimed they would beat Labour in a future general election in Scotland.
The superpoll, an average of every Scottish element of 10 UK polls published since October, shows the SNP on 35.3 %, up 17 %, compared with Labour on 30.7 %, down nine points.
The Tories were on 17.2 %, up one point, while the Lib Dems were on 11.3 %, down 12 points.
If the poll findings were translated into votes, the SNP would gain 22 Westminster seats, five behind Labour on 27, with the Lib Dems holding only seven and the Tories three. Among the many seats the SNP claim would go from Labour to SNPis the Kilmarnock & Loudoun constituency of Scottish Secretary Des Browne.
An SNP government source said: 'The SNP is on course to do extremely well in a UK general election, whenever Gordon Brown calls it.
'On the basis of these figures, the SNP would win Des Browne's seat, which would go a long way to resolving the problem! Certainly the SNP is raising its sights for the next general election.
'It's perfectly possible that the next UK parliament coud be hung - which would put the party of Scottish government in an extremely influential position.
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