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Article: Another city set to fall to SNP - just days after visit by Gordon Brown

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March 14, 2009
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THE SNP last night tightened its grip on local government across Scotland by winning a by-election that looks likely to hand them control of the country's fourth city.

Nationalists are negotiating with the one independent councillor in Dundee to allow them to wrest control of the local council from Labour.

It is a major blow to Labour and to Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, who visited the city last week when it hosted the Scottish Labour Party conference.

It will mean the SNP is in power in three of Scotland's four big cities, forming coalitions in both Edinburgh and Aberdeen. In the past year, the party has also seized control of Stirling from Labour. Excluding Dundee, the SNP helps ...

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