{"id":604142,"date":"2025-11-30T22:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604142\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:26:26","slug":"scottish-labour-mps-back-keir-starmer-oust-fearing-holyrood-wipeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604142\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Labour MPs back Keir Starmer oust fearing Holyrood wipeout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Senior party sources in Westminster<\/a> have told The Times<\/a> that Starmer is \u201cvery unpopular\u201d with voters in Scotland and that his remaining at the helm of the party jeopardises any ambitions Labour has of taking on the SNP next year.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n According to The Times Scottish MPs are among the keenest in replacing Starmer in the new year in a bid to install a less damaging figurehead for the party.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n One insider reportedly told The Times: \u201cThe situation is untenable. The question for those of us with elections next May is \u2018is there time for a change\u2019, or do we wait to be slaughtered?\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy preference is before May.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\n Meanwhile, another claimed that the SNP<\/a> are \u201cbadly disliked\u201d and \u201ceminently beatable\u201d, despite John Swinney<\/a>\u2019s party comfortably leading Labour in recent polling.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n The source added: \u201cIf we\u2019re not able to mount a proper attack on them, that\u2019s a really worrying sign.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy concern is not that Anas can\u2019t do that. It\u2019s Keir that\u2019s very unpopular on the doorstep.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Meanwhile, a third expressed their concern of remaining \u201cstuck in third\u201d as polling also has the party trailing behind the likes of the Greens and the LibDems and slumping to fourth.<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n They said: \u201cWe have everything to gain and little to lose by getting rid of Keir. With elections round the corner, we should be in contention for first place in the polls.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cInstead we\u2019re at risk of finishing in a far behind second, or staying stuck in third place.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Earlier this month, Scottish Labour<\/a>\u2019s woes were extended even further after a YouGov poll revealed the party had slipped to fourth ahead of next May\u2019s Holyrood election.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

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\n Polling showed that Anas Sarwar\u2019s Scottish Labour was behind the SNP<\/a> (37%), the Greens (27%), and the LibDems (26%) and was sitting at just 23%, according to research by YouGov.\n<\/p>\n

\n Labour were only slightly ahead of Farage\u2019s Reform UK, whom 21% out of the 1017 people questioned, said they would be thinking about voting for.\n<\/p>\n

\n The poll also found that less than half of Scots who backed Labour in last year\u2019s General Election would vote for them again.\n<\/p>\n

\n The research found that 48% of those who voted for Starmer\u2019s party last July would be willing to vote Labour again in a future election \u2013 with more than a third (35%) saying they are considering voting for the LibDems, while more than a quarter (28%) could vote SNP.\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Meanwhile, 87% of those who voted for John Swinney\u2019s SNP in the 2024 Westminster election said they would consider backing them again \u2013 although 45% are also open to voting Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior party sources in Westminster have told The Times that Starmer is \u201cvery unpopular\u201d with voters in Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-604142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115641003866053231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}