‘Scunnered with the Tories, frustrated by the SNP’: Labour in bid to be Scotland’s biggest party

Candidates in key central belt hope to scoop up voters who have become disillusioned with their election rivals

Not for the first time, Blair McDougall, Labour's candidate in East Renfrewshire on the outskirts of Glasgow, is telling a wavering voter that the election here is so, so close".

If predictions of a knife-edge outcome weren't enough to motivate him, many people - including some in Barrhead, which he is visiting today - have just received their postal ballots. Their votes will be cast in the next few days.