“No one expected me to win,” said the Labour MSP Daniel Johnson, as he settled down in one of his constituency’s signature coffee shops. “The odds were 20-1 at the start of the year.”
Johnson is the Labour politician who bucks the trend. He won his seat in May 2016, one year after Scotland’s Labour MPs were all but wiped out by the Scottish National Party. Not only that, but he snatched it from a Nat, Jim Eadie. So how did he do it?
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