What is going on between Labour and the SNP? On one level the parties loathe each other – in Scotland, certainly, the relationship between the two is fraught, combative and zero-sum. At Westminster, however, things appear somewhat warmer.
This is not pleasing to the Holyrood-based Scottish Labour hierarchy. They are engaged in a fight for their lives against a relentless Nationalist machine that has dominated Scottish politics for more than a decade. They are battling to save the Union as well as their own seats, for relevance in the national debate, and to re-establish themselves in their traditional role as the choice of the Scottish left and centre left. Jeremy Corbyn’s swithering over Brexit has been disastrous for them in this heavily Remain-supporting part of the UK.
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