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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

expect to eat his daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls, and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Versailles.

Now, tomorrow, they just go to the polls in the local elections,

and while much of the focus has been on Boris Johnson's position

and whether the blue war will crumble,

or whether there will be enough gains or at least holding the position in red wall to keep him safe,

we could be heading for an upset for the Conservatives in Scotland.

James, there's a poll that's projected that Scottish Labour

will actually be the second biggest party.

Can you talk us through the factors going on there?

So Douglas Ross, the leader of Scottish Tories, has had a very difficult time recently,

I think, to put it mildly.

When some of these initial party-gate revelations came out,

Douglas Ross came out and said that Boris Johnson should resign.

I think he thought that the 54 letters to create a vote

and confidence were on their way in, and he was going to position himself ahead of that.

Boris Johnson is obviously not popular in Scotland.

The letters then didn't come, then you had the war in Ukraine,

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