Kezia Dugdale, the former Scottish Labour leader, voted SNP in the 2019 Euro elections as a protest against Brexit. Dugdale stated that her vote for the SNP was so she could register a protest against Brexit, and insisted that she had voted Labour in every election since then, including the council, Scottish Parliament, and general elections. Despite her pro-independence leanings, she has acknowledged that she could vote yes in a future referendum. Dugdale's defection mirrored tens of thousands of Scottish Labour voters in 2019, where the party recorded just 9% of the vote in the elections. She is now the director of the John Smith Centre at the University of Glasgow. The Labour party's poor electoral performance has led its current leaders to believe that they can compete with the SNP in the upcoming general election.