Labour’s Electoral Underperformance Opens the Way for a New Scottish Independence Campaign
Labour’s Electoral Underperformance Opens the Way for a New Scottish Independence Campaign

Author(s): Przemysław Biskup
Subject(s): Politics, Governance, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: UK; Scotland; Wales; elections;
Summary/Abstract: On 6 May, a series of council, mayoral, Scottish, and Welsh parliamentary elections took place, as well as the House of Commons by election in Hartlepool. Campaigning covered all constituent parts of Great Britain. The elections provided the first test of support for political forces after the outbreak of the pandemic and Brexit. The clear victory of the Conservatives in England and the nationalists in Scotland seems to confirm electoral shifts occurring since 2016 and the slim prospects for the return of Labour - until recently the largest party with strong footholds in all parts of Great Britain - to power within the next decade.

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