Dundee is the city where the era of SNP dominance began.

It all started with the nationalists’ narrow council victory in 2003, quickly followed by the even more significant victory of Stewart Hosie in the then constituency of Dundee East in 2005.

Both results showed the SNP was capable of shrugging off its tartan Tory pretentions and winning over aspirational, middle class, urban voters.

Equally, those victories also suggested Scottish voters were growing weary with an out-of-touch Labour Party that too often took them for granted.

Even greater SNP success in Dundee was, of course, still to come.

In 2015, the nationalists swept the city, turning both constituencies yellow with huge majorities, following on from the SNP winning its first majority on the city council in 2012.

The pinnacle – or nadir, depending on your perspective – for the nationalists in Dundee came in 2014 when the city backed independence by a significant majority.

It was Scotland’s Yes City and the jewel in the SNP’s crown.

That, however, seems all about to change. A new MRP poll for More in Common has the nationalists heading for defeat in not just one but both of........

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