THE SNP last night seized on the result from the Eastleigh by-election to argue Westminster's politics was becoming increasingly right-wing, Europhobic and alien to Scots voters, and claimed that would boost the case for independence.
THE SNP last night seized on the result from the Eastleigh by-election to argue Westminster's politics was becoming increasingly right-wing, Europhobic and alien to Scots voters, and claimed that would boost the case for independence.
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Ukip’s rise ‘shows need for independence’ By Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor
Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister and linchpin of the Yes campaign, said the second-place result for the UK Independence Party in the Hampshire seat, after its negative focus on the EU and immigration, would also push the Tories and Labour further to the right in an attempt to stop Ukip eating into their vote.
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