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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Alasdair Soussi

BIZARRE: In scotland support grows for labour as snp s dominance looks set to fade - What They Never Told You

Many Scots are backing the Labour Party led by Keir Starmer (left) over the SNP headed by First Minister John Swinney (right) for the July 4 election [Andrew Matthews/Pool/AFP]

Glasgow, United Kingdom – When the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) defeated its Labour rivals by a single seat in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, it brought about more than just a change in government.

Previous votes had cemented Scotland’s status as a Labour Party stronghold, and that trend continued when a devolved government was established in Edinburgh in 1999; the first two Scottish Parliament elections saw the return of two successive Labour-led governments.

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