SNP fear Jeremy Corbyn most, says Angus MacNeil
Jeremy Corbyn is the Labour leadership candidate most feared by the SNP, one of the party’s established MPs has said.
In an exclusive interview with Holyrood's sister title Total Politics magazine, Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP Angus MacNeil said Labour was annihilated in Scotland at the 2015 general election because "they got done over on austerity, done over on immigration and they got done over by the SNP."
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Asked which of Labour’s leadership candidates the SNP feared was best placed to win back Scottish voters, he said: "The one guy we’d feel has the most to sort that, who has got the courage and the vision is… Jeremy Corbyn.
"But he’s never going to get it, so we don’t fear any of them, as a result of that."
Another independence referendum is likely before 2020, MacNeil told the magazine’s editor David Singleton.
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