Labour win could impact Scotland

A LABOUR victory in this year’s general election could have ‘big implications’ for Scotland, the party’s UK campaign co-ordinator has said.

Pat McFadden, who has been a Labour MP for almost 20 years, insisted however that a Labour victory in the next Holyrood ballot is not ‘inevitable’ if Sir Keir Starmer is voted into Downing Street.

The Scottish-born MP, who represents Wolverhampton South East, also stressed his party has a ‘lot of work to turn a possibility into a reality’ in the Westminster election. While UK-wide polls have consistently put Labour ahead of Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives, Mr McFadden claimed such research is ‘about as useful as looking in the rear-view mirror of your car and trying to predict the traffic conditions up ahead’.