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FIVE KEY POINTS

Bar charts with questionable statistics were often thought to be the preserve of the Liberal Democrats, but it was Ruth Davidson who was chided yesterday by Labour’s Ian Murray after a Tory leaflet featured national polling seemingly presented as a local snapshot for Edinburgh South. The leaflet’s claims that Labour “can’t win” in a constituency they have held for 30 years may be overstating the scale of their collapse, especially after a new poll now sees them almost neck-and-neck with Ms Davidson’s party in the battle for second place in terms of vote share.