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Article: Labour In Crisis: Brown's future rests on third choice Curran
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- July 6, 2008
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LABOUR'S battle to win the Glasgow East by-election and save the
premiership of Gordon Brown looked increasingly desperate last night
after party chiefs were forced to parachute in a new, big-hitting
candidate.
Margaret Curran, a local MSP and former minister, was persuaded
to step forward after the front-runner suddenly backed out on Friday
night amid financial allegations.
Labour sources say local councillor George Ryan withdrew from the
contest because decade-old claims about housing benefit fraud - over
which he had been cleared - were about to be repeated by a tabloid
newspaper. Ryan, it is understood, did not want his family to be put
through a public ordeal.
Just a week after the ...
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