“A very typical doorstep conservation will contain somebody saying: ‘I’m simply utterly scunnered, are you able to do what you may to get them out?’” Kirsty McNeill, the Labour candidate for Midlothian, tells the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent Libby Brooks.
“Then I’ll must make clear: ‘Do you imply them up the street or them down the street?’ After which they’ll say: ‘Really we really feel horribly let down by each.’”
Libby has been chatting with voters and candidates in Midlothian. It’s one of many many battleground constituencies between the Scottish Nationwide get together (SNP) and Labour. She tells Helen Pidd about how the price of residing, decline in public providers and scandals within the SNP management have left some voters disillusioned – and weighing up their views on independence and different considerations.
Libby additionally speaks to the SNP candidate searching for to be re-elected in Midlothian, Owen Thompson, about his optimism for the get together underneath the management of John Swinney.
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