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| SNP deputy Angus Robertson ousted by Tories on bad night for Sturgeon’s party | |
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| The Scottish National party’s deputy leader, Angus Robertson, has suffered a shock defeat in his seat of Moray after the Conservatives won a stunning victory backed by pro-Brexit voters. | The Scottish National party’s deputy leader, Angus Robertson, has suffered a shock defeat in his seat of Moray after the Conservatives won a stunning victory backed by pro-Brexit voters. |
| Robertson’s defeat will be a bitter blow to Nicola Sturgeon and follows one of the first surprise losses of the general election with the SNP narrowly losing a seat to Labour that few had predicted. | Robertson’s defeat will be a bitter blow to Nicola Sturgeon and follows one of the first surprise losses of the general election with the SNP narrowly losing a seat to Labour that few had predicted. |
| In a sign that Sturgeon’s party could suffer heavier than expected losses across Scotland, Scottish Labour overcame a 17% SNP majority to win Rutherglen and Hamilton West, by just 265 votes. | |
| As the first Scottish results came in, the Conservatives won Angus to the west of Dundee – another unexpected SNP loss that indicated a strong swing towards pro-UK parties. | As the first Scottish results came in, the Conservatives won Angus to the west of Dundee – another unexpected SNP loss that indicated a strong swing towards pro-UK parties. |
| Defended by Mike Weir, Angus is one of six core SNP constituencies the party had held in successive elections before its landslide victories in 2015 brought it 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats. | Defended by Mike Weir, Angus is one of six core SNP constituencies the party had held in successive elections before its landslide victories in 2015 brought it 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats. |
| In a sign of how well the Tories were doing in the SNP’s rural seats, there was a recount order in the other key Tory target of Perth and North Perthshire, held by the SNP’s Scottish affairs committee chairman, Pete Wishart. | In a sign of how well the Tories were doing in the SNP’s rural seats, there was a recount order in the other key Tory target of Perth and North Perthshire, held by the SNP’s Scottish affairs committee chairman, Pete Wishart. |
| The BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll forecast the SNP could lose 22 seats in this election, far more than commercial polls had been predicting. Those suggested the SNP would lose about 12 constituencies, although senior figures were braced for the loss of 15 seats. | |
| There were several reassuring victories but with a reduced share of the vote for Sturgeon, with Mhairi Black holding Paisley and Renfrewshire South. The SNP also held Kilmarnock and Loudoun; Falkirk; East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow; and Dunbartonshire West. The SNP Treasury spokesman, Stewart Hosie, retained Dundee East. | |
| The Conservatives were widely expected to win their top target seat of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk in the Borders from the SNP, with some party figures in Scotland’s most marginal constituency suggesting it could be by a 5,000-vote majority. | |
| In those seats declared, there was significant evidence the Tory vote was increasing and in some places beating Labour. That suggested Sturgeon’s risky gamble of accusing the Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, of hiding her secret support for a second independence referendum last year from voters had paid off by turning unionist voters away from Labour. | In those seats declared, there was significant evidence the Tory vote was increasing and in some places beating Labour. That suggested Sturgeon’s risky gamble of accusing the Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, of hiding her secret support for a second independence referendum last year from voters had paid off by turning unionist voters away from Labour. |
| Black told BBC Scotland: “I’m glad to be re-elected to go back down and continue to batter into whoever is in government that austerity is not working, it’s not benefiting people’s lives whatsoever. The people it is benefiting, you could argue, are the ones who need it least.” | |
| As Scottish voters went to polling stations amid torrential rain or overcast skies on Thursday, two fresh eve-of-election polls supported forecasts that the SNP would lose as many as 12 Westminster seats. | As Scottish voters went to polling stations amid torrential rain or overcast skies on Thursday, two fresh eve-of-election polls supported forecasts that the SNP would lose as many as 12 Westminster seats. |
| A Survation telephone poll for the Record, which backed Labour in the election, put the SNP at its lowest level since September 214, down to 39%, while Scottish Labour scored a remarkable 29%, its highest in more than two years, and the Tories were on 26%. | |
| A Panelbase poll published by the Scottish edition of the Times suggested Survation’s unusual results were an outlier: it put Labour at 22%, lower than other recent surveys, while the SNP were at 41% and the Conservatives at 30%. | A Panelbase poll published by the Scottish edition of the Times suggested Survation’s unusual results were an outlier: it put Labour at 22%, lower than other recent surveys, while the SNP were at 41% and the Conservatives at 30%. |