Sturgeon targets Lib Dem and Labour voters

Nicola Sturgeon launched an eve-of-poll appeal to Labour and Liberal Democrat voters to switch to the SNP in today’s election.

The First Minister told a rally of supporters in Leith that Nationalist MPS would agree with Jeremy Corbyn’s leftwing policies more than Kezia Dugdale and Scottish Labour.

“I’ve got a message for people who normally vote labour or Liberal Democrat,” Ms Sturgeon said in a passionate address.

“You may disagree with us [the SNP] very strongly on some things.

“But I ask you to think about this. A vote tomorrow for Labour or the Liberal Democrats, the parties in third and fourth place in Scotland, risks doing one thing and one thing only: splitting the anti-tory vote and allowing a Tory MP in by the back door.”

Ms Sturgeon said Theresa May must be regretting her “arrogant” decision to call a snap general election believing she would “cruise to a landslide victory”.

“If we do not want to wake up on Friday morning with a Tory government with a bigger majority able to do more damage in Scotland, then the only way to stop that happening is to vote SNP,” the SNP leader said.

“Scotland has the opportunity tomorrow to hold the Tories firmly in check. It is no longer inevitable that Theresa May emerges from this election with a bigger majority or with any majority at all.

“Scotland’s voice could be decisive.”

She added: “The right of this country to decide its own future depends on SNP MPS being elected.”