Labour takes on the SNP in Scotland – podcast

“A really typical doorstep conservation will involve someone saying: ‘I’m just completely scunnered, can you do what you can to get them out?’” Kirsty McNeill, the Labour candidate for Midlothian, tells the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent Libby Brooks.

“Then I’ll have to clarify: ‘Do you mean them up the road or them down the road?’ And then they’ll say: ‘Actually we feel horribly let down by both.’”

Libby has been speaking to voters and candidates in Midlothian. It’s one of the many battleground constituencies between the Scottish National party (SNP) and Labour. She tells Helen Pidd about how the cost of living, decline in public services and scandals in the SNP leadership have left some voters disillusioned – and weighing up their views on independence and other concerns.

Libby also speaks to the SNP candidate seeking to be re-elected in Midlothian, Owen Thompson, about his optimism for the party under the leadership of John Swinney.

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