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Glasgow NE: bounce or bombshell?

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 08, 2009

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Labour is defending a 10,000-plus majority, but this week's byelection could be critical

Labour is hoping to use a positive result in this week's Glasgow North East byelection as the springboard for a national revival of its fortunes, the party's candidate said last night.

Willie Bain, an academic standing for Labour after the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin last June, said that while there was "no complacency" in his campaign team, the signs were positive.

Bain is defending a majority of more than 10,000 in the normally safe Labour seat, with the main challenge coming from the Scottish National Party.

Defeat for Gordon Brown's party would be another hammer blow to Labour morale with only a few months to go before a general election. Some MPs believe that it could trigger a new bout of speculation about whether he should lead the party into the next election.

But Bain said last night there were positive signs that the result would lift the party, and be very different to the disaster that befell Labour in July last year when the SNP achieved

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