article_snippet: A dramatic surge by The SNP looks set to claim Gordon Brown's Scottish seat and rob Ed Miliband of a Commons majority, according to a new poll last night.
article_snippet: The poll, commissioned by former Tory treasurer Lord Ashcroft, suggests The SNP is on course for a landslide at the General Election, winning as many as 56 of Scotland's 59 seats - up from just six at present.
article_snippet: The poll, commissioned by former Tory treasurer Lord Ashcroft, suggests The SNP is on course for a landslide at the General Election, winning as many as 56 of Scotland's 59 seats - up from just six at present.
article_snippet: The SNP surge would claim seats held by a string of household names, including those of departing Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, and former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy.
article_snippet: Of the eight Scottish seats polled, The SNP would gain six - including four from Labour - and tie with David Mundell, in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale. '
article_snippet: The SNP surge is on course to claim seats held by a string of household names, including those of departing Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling .
article_snippet: And The SNP has warned that The SNP will demand a ruinously high price from Labour, including billions more in spending and borrowing, home rule for Scotland and the scrapping of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent.
article_snippet: The new polling suggests that The SNP will make deep inroads into Labour's Scottish heartlands, and all but eradicate the Lib Dems north of the Border.
article_snippet: But the new poll forecasts an incredible 28.5 per cent swing to The SNP, giving the Nationalists a comfortable six-point lead.
article_snippet: In Edinburgh South West, where former Chancellor Alistair Darling is also stepping down, the poll pre-another SNP win, on the back of a 22 per cent swing.
article_snippet: In Ross, Skye and Lochaber, which Mr Kennedy has held since 1983, a 21.5 per cent swing to the Nationalists looks set to hand the seat to former SNP treasurer Ian Blackford.
article_snippet: SNP election chief Angus Robertson described the findings as 'very encouraging' and showed the party was picking up seats across Scotland, including in areas that rejected independence, such as the Borders, where Mr Mundell is facing a knife-edge battle to cling on.
highlights_snippet: The SNP is on course for a landslide in Scotland at the General Election .
  
highlights_snippet: Nationalists could win as many as 56 of Scotland's 59 seats, up from six .
  