The single highest profile – and titular – pledge of the manifesto was of course the promise to ‘get Brexit done’. The election followed a period ofparliamentary deadlock, and the negotiation of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. The manifesto pledged to pass this deal, limit the length of ...
A raft of polls pointed out the newly crowned winner was popular with nationalist members but his polling with the public made for grim reading. He was seen as more incompetent, untrustworthy and weak compared to rival Kate Forbes. She was seen much more favourab...
the party won more than 30 percent of the Scottish vote and took 11 of the 71 Scottish seats in the BritishParliament. In later years the party was supported consistently in opinion polls by 20 to 25 percent of Scottish voters, making it the second most popular party in Scotland after Labo...