Big boost for SNP as poll puts party 12 points clear

LABOUR was facing a series of negative polls yesterday, 24 days before the election.

The latest poll on the Holyrood elections gives the SNP their biggest lead of 12 per cent, six points more than previous polls. If the results of the Scottish Opinion poll are replicated on 3 May, the number of SNP MSPs would more than double and give the party 16 more than Labour.

In addition, an in-depth poll by BPIX on the party's ten years in power in the UK found almost half of voters consider Tony Blair untrustworthy and more than half think he has been in office too long.

An ICM poll showed more than two-thirds of people favour immediate withdrawal from Iraq.

And a YouGov poll found Britain is split down the middle on whether Scotland should remain part of the UK. The finding suggests that if the Scots opt for independence, the English will not stand in their way.