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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (centre) and the new Labour MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West Michael Shanks (left) at a rally following Scottish Labour's win in Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. Picture date: Friday October 6, 2023.
LABOUR begins its conference this weekend with a spring in its step after a “seismic” victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton by-election.
Labour’s candidate Michael Shanks “blew the doors off,” party leader Sir Keir Starmer exclaimed after he won a whopping swing of more than 20 per cent from the SNP.
Following a lacklustre Tory conference in Manchester the win in the Scottish marginal will strengthen Labour delegates arriving in Liverpool’s sense they are on the way to government.
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