Kezia Dugdale says she voted for SNP in 2019 because of Brexit but says she has voted Labour ever since then
Kezia Dugdale, the former Scottish Labour leader, has admitted she voted for the Scottish National party in a protest against Brexit in May 2019, in the last European elections involving the UK.
Dugdale, who was Scottish party leader from 2015 to 2017 and was still a Labour MSP at the time, has long made clear her opposition to the UK leaving the EU. She has told a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Labour’s Scottish Challenge, she was “so mad about Brexit.”
I voted SNP once in my life and that was in the European Union elections immediately after Brexit, where I was so mad about Brexit.
I felt I could vote for the SNP in that European Union election, because that in no way could be construed as a vote for independence.
If you are presented with a binary choice between an independent Scotland in a progressive Europe or Little Boris Brexit Britain, I know where my cards would fall down.
I also know I couldn’t argue with the same strength for the union that I did in 2014 now. That doesn’t mean I’m ready to vote yes; there are big, big questions we need to debate as a country and resolve.
