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Byelection result challenges Humza Yousaf’s strategy to use SNP general election majority to negotiate with Westminster

Victory for Labour in Rutherglen and Hamilton West gives party cautious hope for bigger battles ahead

Labour must do more to prove it can generate the political reforms Scottish voters want, says professor of public policy James Mitchell

HUMZA Yousaf has said “contextual factors” including Margaret Ferrier’s “reckless actions” led to the SNP loss in Rutherglen and…

Labour won on a 20.4 percentage point swing from the nationalists in Rutherglen and Hamilton West.

To understand the Labour Party, you first have to understand the importance of Scottish Labour. From Keir Hardie to John Smith, Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown, Scotland runs to the very core of the labour movement. For goodness sake, even Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh.

SUPPORT for both Labour and the SNP is down in Scotland, according to a new poll.

The SNP came a distant second to Labour in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat.

Party, which held a divisive conference this week, has been in power for 13 years but is struggling in opinion polls.

The Labour leader said the result marked a ‘big step in the right direction’ on his path to Downing Street.

Leader congratulates activists after Michael Shanks wins twice the votes of SNP rival in Rutherglen and Hamilton West