. ~ . ,~ . , scotland. jason allardyce, really aood to scotland. jason allardyce, really good to getgood to get your thoughts here | scotland. jason allardyce, really i good to get your thoughts here on bbc news. let's get more on this now and go live to our political correspondent nick eardley who is in rutherglen and was just listening to those speeches. what did you make of that? it strikes me that you can feel almost the optimism in the labour party in scotland now. we had ian murray, until yesterday labour's in saying the tectonic plates in scotland are shifting as a result of this by—election in rutherglen and hamilton west. you had jackie baillie, the party's deputy leader in scotland, quoting sirjohn curtis, suggesting on this when, labour could win 40 plus seats in scotland that a general labour could win 40 plus seats in scotla they at a general labour could win 40 plus seats in scotla they have eneral labour could win 40 plus seats in scotla they have pretty much think, they have pretty much declared that they are back in scotland and that they can win a number of seats at

let's bring injason allardyce, former editor of the sunday times. jasonifference a day makes. there was l to what happened overnight. what a j difference a day makes. there was a lot of excitement yesterday in snp circles because hamza yousef was invited onto the cover of a special time magazine. not a huge surprise that the margin is on the upper ends of what labour had theirs to hope. i think this is the result of a perfect storm. i think s&p had internal —— snp had internal difficulties with the loss of their popular leader nicola sturgeon. and then obviously the loss of the snp mp who lost her seat ultimately by breaking coronavirus rules. but the snp is also benefiting from a lot of tactical voting, snp is also benefiting from a lot of tacticalvoting, but snp is also benefiting from a lot of tactical voting, but now we are seeing a lot of conservative voters coming towards the party that is most likely to keep the snp at bay because scottish independence is still a huge fear for so because scottish independence is still a huge fearfor so many people