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Article: Glasgow East By-Election: Analysis: 'A Labour win will be little more than a relief to a bedraggled party'
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- July 20, 2008
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CHATTING to journalists at a summer drinks party at the Treasury
last Tuesday evening, Alistair Darling was asked whether or not he
would be campaigning in the Glasgow East by-election this week.
No, the Chancellor declared; no, he would not. It might have been
self-preservation; it might have been a humble recognition that the
last person hard-pressed families want to see is Britain's most
powerful taxman. Either way, Darling's non-appearance is certainly
wise.
For despite the hullabaloo about the votes of the constituency's
strong Catholic electorate, and Labour's attempts to re-focus the by-
election agenda on the gritty issues of law and order, the result on
Thursday will be settled ...