SCOTTISH Labour's popularity in Scotland has seen a further decline in the latest poll on voting intentions from Opinium.

The survey was commissioned by Sky News and found that the majority of voters in Scotland (51%) backed the SNP at future Westminster and Holyrood elections.

The poll was carried out among 1014 voters between September 2 and 8.

It also saw a decline in support for the Scottish Tories with the party receiving just 21% of voters support at Holyrood and Westminster. Their support at for the Scottish Parliament constituency vote was down one point while their backing at a UK General Election was down four points.

But Scottish Labour saw the worst result of the three biggest parties with Scottish Parliament constituency voting intentions at 18% of those surveyed (down four points), Westminster voting intentions at 17% (down three points).

READ MORE: Independence ahead and SNP four points up in latest voting intention poll

In terms of the regional list vote for the Holyrood election, the Tories had 21% of the vote share, Labour sat on 16% and the SNP were far in the lead with 40%.

 

Anas Sarwar has also seen a drop in his approval rating which is down two points to 31%. Some 22% of those surveyed said they disapproved of Sarwar's leadership, an increase of two points.

An outspoken Labour activist and critic of the party in its current state, Owen Jones shared the news of Labour's loss of support, tweeting: "Anas Sarwar was Keir Starmer's choice for Scottish Labour leader, and his team believed he would turn the party's fortunes around.

"Let's see how that's going."

Building back support for Labour was previously promised by UK leader Keir Starmer and Scottish boss Sarwar but it does not appear to be going as planned, in Scotland at least.

The Socialist Voice twitter account tweeted: "Labour lost Scotland in 2015 following the party’s Blairite strategy to join the Tories on Better Together Campaign.

"Sir Keir Starmer said he would win back Scotland, but his nationalist rhetoric - and Blairite hijacking of Scottish Labour - has made the party even more unpopular"

The poll is a further blow for the Scottish Labour party that has seen its popularity in Holyrood elections decline at every vote since the new parliament was created.

After leading the parliament during a coalition with the LibDems when it was reconvened in 1999 and returning 56 MSPs, they lost six seats at the 2003 election.

READ MORE: Boris Johnson's approval rating as PM falls to lowest point ever in new poll

In the 2007 election, the SNP narrowly won with 47 seats, beating Labour's 46, a decrease of four, allowing the SNP to enter government for the first time.

Labour saw a further loss of seven seats in 2011 when the SNP won an unprecedented majority of 69. In 2016 the party returned just 24 MSPs to Holyrood as the Scottish Tories overtook them as the main opposition to the SNP.

Then, in the most recent Scottish Parliament election earlier this year, Labour managed just to secure just 22 seats in Holyrood while the Tories saw no change on 31.

In 2014 Labour had 41 Scottish MPs at Westminster but now that number sits at just one with Ian Murray representing Edinburgh South and serving as the party's shadow Scotland secretary.