Labour and Lib Dem bigwigs on the high road to disaster

Danny Alexander and Douglas Alexander will be toppled while Alex Salmond gets an easy ride, says new polling

Columnist Don Brind

Two of the biggest names in Westminster face being toppled by the Scots Nationalists on 7 May, according to the first batch of Scottish constituency polls released this morning by Lord Ashcroft.

Lib Dem Danny Alexander, who is number two to George Osborne at the Treasury, and Douglas Alexander, Labour’s election campaign chief and shadow foreign secretary, would both be ousted. Meanwhile, the former SNP leader Alex Salmond would storm back to Westminster, seizing a seat now held by the Lib Dems.

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is a former BBC lobby correspondent and Labour press officer who is watching the polls for The Week in the run-up to the 2015 election.