Labour still gaining ground on Tories

London Bridge on Saturday night after the terrorist attack. Jeremy Corbyn promised to increase police numbers if Labour wins power Labour is continuing to close the gap in the polls, with the party in Scotland now pushing the Conservatives for second place, a number of weekend surveys indicated.

The party’s revival under Jeremy Corbyn Uk-wide has seen the gap to the Tories cut to just one point, according to a weekend Survation poll.

Other UK polls put the gap at six points and 12 points, but all show Labour gaining ground since the start of the campaign when the party was up to 20 points behind.

It has resulted in a muchneeded bounce for the party in Scotland, which had found itself squeezed out as the pro-union Tories and pro-independence SNP seized the initiative on the constitutional issue which had been dominating the debate early in the campaign.

A Survation focusing on Scotland showed Labour on 25 per cent, up eight points from a similar poll in April. The SNP are on 40 per cent, down three points, while the Tories are on 27 per cent (down one) and the Liberal Democrats are on six per cent (down three).

Analysis by the Scotland Votes seat predictor suggested that the SNP would lose ten seats, leaving it with 46, while the Tories would secure seven, up from one. Labour would add two seats to take three, with the Lib Dems also on three (up from one). The poll also found that 11 per cent of voters are undecided, down from 18 per cent in April.

On tactical voting, respondents were asked if they would consider voting for a party or candidate that was not their first choice to stop a party or candidate they do not like from winning. A total of 44 per cent said Yes, 34 per cent said No and 22 per cent were not sure.

Survation interviewed 1,024 Scots between 31 May and 2 June.