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Article: Why six changed to SNP; GLASGOW EAST: THE POLITICAL AFTERSHOCK.(News)
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- Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2008
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LABOUR were sunk in Glasgow East by a few hundred votes. And Easterhouse was a part of the constituency that showed one of the biggest swings to the Nationalists.
Yesterday we took to the streets of the housing estate to ask six traditional Labour voters why they backed the SNP. And what under-fire PM Gordon Brown must do to win them back.
Margaret Best, 54, housewife, said: "The credit crunch has hit us hard and what have Labour done to help?
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