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Article: Poll points to Labour by-election victory But survey says SNP will slash party's majority in Glasgow East
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- Scotland on Sunday
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- July 13, 2008
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LABOUR is heading for victory in the crucial Glasgow East by-
election, but the SNP has slashed the party's lead from the last
time voters went to the polls.
An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph of 500 voters in the
constituency put Labour on 47 per cent of the vote and the SNP on 33
per cent.
In 2005, the then Labour MP David Marshall won with 60 per cent
of the vote, compared with the SNP's mere 17 per cent.
Labour Party chiefs last night said the poll finding actually
over-inflated their own estimation of support on the ground.
The SNP leader Alex Salmond immediately described the result as
"fantastic" for the Nationalists, claiming the party could easily
make up the 14 per cent gap ...