Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson is currently visiting Scotland, hoping to show the strength of the union.
His government’s woeful handling of the coronavirus crisis and the comparably better handling of the crisis by the devolved administrations would suggest otherwise.
While we may reserve criticism for the Scottish government’s initial tailgating of Johnson’s dithering approach to this crisis, moving wildly from the initial disastrous “herd immunity” strategy to the supposed following of more conventional science, it takes a certain breed of fool to think that the overseeing of thousands of needless deaths conjures up images of anything approaching strength.
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER



