AN acclaimed Scottish musician has given his backing to the SNP in the upcoming General Election.
Voters are set to cast their ballots on Thursday with the latest polling from Savanta putting the SNP slightly ahead of Labour.
In a post on Twitter/X, Stuart Braithwaite, the electric guitar player in Mogwai, said he would be voting for the SNP.
He said: “I’m voting @theSNP tomorrow.
"The Tories are finished whatever Scotland does and the Labour policies on continuing Brexit and their refusal to give Scotland a choice on independence exclude them as an option for me.”
In a post on Twitter/X on June 2, he shared a photo of Ruth Davidson and Alistair Darling campaigning with Better Together, suggesting it was the image he would remember when casting his vote.
In a previous interview with The National, Braithwaite has said the idea of an independent Scotland has “been a constant” in his life.
“Scotland has been sold down the river by Brexit and there has never been any recognition of the amount of people that voted against Brexit here,” he said.
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“Brexit is affecting all of us in many different ways but I think that in Scotland it can only make the independence resolve stronger.”
Wednesday marks the final day of campaigning before the polls open on July 4 with Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney warning the election is on a “knife edge”.
He has conceded that Keir Starmer is likely to be the next prime minister as his Labour Party expected to decimate the Tories in England.
In a speech on the eve of the election, the First Minister is expected to say: “We all know that the result of the General Election in England is a foregone conclusion. Labour will win and Keir Starmer will be prime minister.
"The only story left in this election is here in Scotland, where seats across the country are on a knife-edge.
“And the election in Scotland is the only place where there are genuine, competing visions of the future at stake – a real contest of ideas and values.
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“Labour are offering Scotland more of the same and picking up where the Tories left off.”
Elsewhere, Douglas Ross accused the SNP of “lying through their back teeth” in a bid to win votes.
Swinney hit back at the comments and said that the Scottish Tory leader is more responsible than anybody else for the “toxicity” of debate in the Scottish Parliament.
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