Election loss deals bitter blow to UK's Brown (Reuters)

By Golnar Motevalli 10 minutes ago GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain's ruling Labor Party lost one of its safest parliamentary seats, results showed on Friday, deepening doubts within the party about Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ability to win the next election. The pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) snatched a slim 365-vote majority in the Glasgow East constituency, overturning the huge 13,500 majority enjoyed by Labor at the 2005 election. Defeat leaves Brown facing a bleak political weekend as the party's main policy-making forum meets to try to figure out how to win back disillusioned voters. "This is a huge protest vote. But I am still skeptical about whether it will lead to any serious attempt to unseat him although he is going to have a difficult time this weekend," Wyn Grant, professor of politics at Warwick... [read full story]