SCOTLAND’s political parties are spending the last day of the campaign fighting for the support of Labour voters.

Both the SNP and the Tories have called on voters disaffected by Jeremy Corbyn to come on over to them. However, Corbyn himself will be in Glasgow today, at the start of a whistle-stop UK tour.

Despite polls suggesting otherwise, Labour sources are increasingly optimistic that they can hold Glasgow North East, gain Glasgow South West, and possibly take Glasgow Central. However, their national campaign was dealt a blow yesterday when a leaked recording emerged of shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth admitting that the party would lose the election.

He also seemed to admit Corbyn would be a security risk.

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The front bencher claimed the comments, made in private and secretly recorded and leaked to the Guido Fawkes website by a friend, were just “banter”. But they have been punched upon by the Tories as proof that even Corbyn’s closest allies don’t trust him.

Ashworth said the election campaign was “dire for Labour”, and told the friend that he “can’t see it happening”.

Appearing on the Victoria Derbyshire show minutes after the recording was published, he insisted he did not mean what he said: “We’re having banter with each other – we’re joking around.

“No I don’t mean it because I’m joking around with my mate because he’s a Tory ... If you leak it to Guido Fawkes of course it makes me look like a right plonker but it’s not what I mean when I’m winding up a friend – I’m trying to sort of pull his leg a bit.”

When asked about the comments, Corbyn said it was “not the sort of thing I would do”, but claimed the story was “irrelevant”.

Meanwhile, in an eve of poll appeal, Ian Blackford claimed thousands of Labour supporters would be voting SNP at this crucial election as only they can “beat the Tories and lock Boris Johnson out of Number 10”.

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He added: “The SNP is the main challenger in every single Tory-held seat, and the only party strong enough to defeat Boris Johnson in Scotland and deprive him of the majority he craves.”

Just hours before, the Tory MSP Adam Tomkins – who describes himself as a former Labour voter – made a direct appeal to those opposed to independence.

He said: “I joined the party in 2014. I am a new Tory. And until I joined the party, I had never voted Tory, I was for the most part a Labour voter.

“But I signed up, like so many people, because I realised the Scottish Conservatives are the only party dedicated, come what may, to Scotland’s place in the Union.”