SNP concedes defeat in last UK seat to declare result

Labour won a landslide victory in Scotland with 37 seats – a gain of 36.

The SNP, who won 48 seats in 2019, have been reduced to nine.

The Scottish Conservatives have five seats but party leader Douglas Ross – who is standing down after the vote – lost out to the SNP in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East after controversially standing instead of a local candidate who had been ill.

The Liberal Democrats are on five seats, which would rise to six if they win Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.

First Minister John Swinney has described the result, the SNP’s worst since 2010, as “very, very difficult and damaging”.

He said the party would have to rebuild trust with the people of Scotland.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said it was a “historic day” and that the new Labour MPs would “make decisions for the people of Scotland”.

Mr Ross described it as a “deeply difficult campaign and result” for his party.

He told BBC Reporting Scotland: “I don’t think we need any knee-jerk reaction that we may regret in the short to medium term.”