Why the Tories’ 2015 SNP attack lines won’t work against Starmer’s Labour
Starmer is seen as stronger than Ed Miliband which makes it harder to claim he would be in the pocket of Scottish nationalists.
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Ben Walker
Ben Walker is a senior data journalist at the New Statesman.
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