Did last year’s referendum encourage young people to back the SNP?
Also: Knives out for two more Labour leaders – Murphy in Scotland and Jones in Wales.
This is the consequence of declining turnout and less support for the two main parties.
The one-time leadership contender explains his European acid test, the case for Scottish fiscal autonomy, and why he doubts a repeat of the Major experience.
Thursday again proved that Labour cannot win from the left. But the voters who once made up their winning coalition are now deeply at odds with each other.
Two things to vote against, and one to vote for.
Labour voters in Douglas Alexander’s seat are furious at being treated as “a second-class nation” and “bullied” during the referendum.
Where will voters south of the border believe it resides if, after Thursday, the SNP imposes its will on a Tory-voting England by voting on English business?
Also: Northern Irish Labour denounce bar on contesting elections; SNP suspend members who harassed Murphy; Robinson calls for pan-UK unionist fightback.
And at Westminster these parties should agree that none of them will do deals with the SNP in order to secure Commons majorities.
Plus: The CCHQ charm school. Disgraceful Livingstone. Untruthful Clegg. Nasty Russell Brand. Where I’ll be on election night. And: Advice to candidates for the count.
Also: Calls for referendum as NI Assembly votes down gay marriage by two votes; and Jones and Davidson join the debate on EVEL.
Plus: This week’s focus groups in Glasgow, Paisley and Edinburgh; and who would play whom in Nicola Sturgeon: The Movie?
Nigel Dodds’ latter-day conversion to the legitimacy of the SNP coincides with a threat to the influence of DUP MPs.
Privately, leading Scottish Tories are livid at the Carlisle Principle, Theresa May’s ‘abdication’ intervention and the rest of the rhetoric of the last week.