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Article: Brown loses `must win' and `safe' Glasgow East by-poll

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July 25, 2008
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London, July 25 -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has lost the "must-win" Glasgow East by-election.

According to The Sun, Labour sensationally lost one of the party's safest seats to the Scottish National Party (SNP) on Friday morning.

The SNP won by 365 votes after a nail-biting recount, a swing of 23 per cent from Labour which previously had a massive 13,500 majority.

It is now being predicted that if support drifted from Labour on this scale at a general election, Tory leader David Cameron would seize power with ease.

The loss of Glasgow East will almost certainly spark a summer of Labour discontent over ...

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