
Parliament’s power brokers – where they stand ahead of May 2015
Ed Jacobs looks at where the SNP and DUP, the likely key players in a hung parliament, now sit politically.

Ed Jacobs looks at where the SNP and DUP, the likely key players in a hung parliament, now sit politically.

The SNP go into Christmas backed by a record proportion of supporters.

The former chancellor warned that whilst the issue of Scottish MPs voting rights on English-only matters needed to be addressed, to link it with further powers to Holyrood risked putting the SNP back into the ascendency.

The new Scottish Labour leader will need to show Scottish voters that the party north of the border is able to think independently.

Membership of the Scottish Green Party has seen a staggering increase of over 600 per cent since January.

All recent polling suggests a return to Westminster for the former first minister.

The chancellor’s statement has for once given Westminster the upper hand over Holyrood.

As Nicola Sturgeon awakes to her first full day in office as Scotland’s first minister, she will not be short of advice from commentators in the Scottish press.

Labour are set to lose all but five of their 40 Scottish MPs in the General Election, making it all but impossible to oust David Cameron from Downing Street, according to a new poll.

Membership surge raises the prospect of SNP becoming the third biggest party in UK-wide politics.