WHY? What has driven Scotland to vote in the opposite way to the rest of the UK? What made us deliver a swing to Labour that flattened the Conservatives, pushed back the SNP and confounded almost all pundit prediction?
Scotland did not so much "buck the UK trend" as throw a convulsive spasm back to the order as it was five years ago – and a few decades before that. Central Scotland, and Glasgow in particular, reverted to Labour overwhelmingly, flattening all recent talk of deep change afoot in Old Labour heartlands.
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