Poll Gives SNP Lead

An Ipsos-Mori poll for STV put the nationalists ay 52 percent, with Labour at 23.

The Conservatives scored 10% with the LibDems and Greens on 6% each.

Mid Scotland and Fife nationalist MSP Annabelle Ewing says she's encouraged by the poll, but she says the party can't become complacent.

SNP Deputy Leader Nicola Sturgeon said: "Support of 52 per cent for the SNP at Westminster is further proof that the referendum has changed Scottish politics forever. More and more people are choosing to put their trust in the SNP as disillusion with the entire Westminster establishment grows.

"London Labour's treatment of their party in Scotland as nothing more than a 'branch office' has left them in meltdown. As a result, people across the country realise that Ed Miliband doesn’t speak for them and Labour support is in free-fall.

"This poll also shows the people of Scotland continue to reject the Euro-hostile and unsavoury politics of UKIP - as the Westminster parties continue their lurch to the right to pander to them.

"In recent weeks we have seen people flock to join the SNP and our membership has more than tripled to over 83,000 – nearly 1 in 50 adults in Scotland are now members of the party.

"At next year's General Election, we have the power to send a shockwave through the Westminster establishment. By electing a strong team of SNP MPs, the people of Scotland can ensure that the Westminster parties are held to account on the panicked promises they made to us all in the days leading up to the referendum."