On 11 August, Jeremy Corbyn’s new shadow Scottish secretary, a man from the North East of England called Dave Anderson, went to visit Aberdeen. And there, he dropped a bombshell.
In a speech, he said a deal with the SNP was something the party should “at least think about”. STV reported it under the headline: “Labour: Deal with SNP ‘a price worth paying’ to stop Tories.”
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