Discerning the lessons of yesterday’s vote will be difficult; learning from them will be even harder

THOSE WHO will suffer in the years to come – whose pain and deaths will eventually be counted as the true fruit of Boris Johnson’s premiership – will have little use for political analysis. As the morning dawned and appeared even darker than the night which preceded it, those of us attempting to make sense of the General Election result should remind ourselves of this.

The First Minister said Boris Johnson has "no mandate whatsoever" to take Scotland out of the EU.

Anaylsis by the Electoral Reform Society suggests that upto 45 per cent of voters have been left unrepresented 

With a defiant Boris Johnson boosted by a huge majority, will he follow through with promise to ignore Scottish referendum request? 

 CommonSpace takes a look at the key battles in Scotland and elsewhere

AS VOTERS head to the polls in the first winter election in over 100 years, several Scottish seats may become the most watched battlegrounds in Scotland and elsewhere come 10pm.  

With pre-election polls predicting either a hung parliament or a narrow majority for Boris Johnson, the results in Scotland could prove key to deciding whether Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn walk into Number 10 Downing Street. 

North East Fife 

The Scottish Government previously faced criticism for repeatedly failing to meets its annual target on tree planting

Labour said the documents show Boris Johnson is "misleading the public" over plans to sell off the NHS

Two weeks ahead of the General Election, the latest Ipsos MORI/STV poll shows the SNP on 44 per cent

With potentially millions of new voters entering the electoral system, traditional political punditry may struggle to predict the election

IN THE PERIOD between the General Election’s announcement on 29 October and the registration deadline on midnight, 26 November, over 3 million people have registered to vote.

Similar to 2017, the biggest increase was in voters under 34, who accounted for 68 per cent of all registrations. Overall, this election period saw a 38 per cent increase in registrations compared to 2017.