Scottish voters deal blow to British leader Brown
                   
miamiherald.com     Jul 25, 2008            

Scottish National Party, SNP, candidate John Mason celebrates his win at the Tollcross Park Leisure Center, in Glasgow after polls closed in the Glasgow East, Scotland by-election late Thursday July 24, 2008. Beleaguered British prime Minister Gordon Brown faced further woes Friday after his party was defeated in a special election in one of its strongholds. The Scottish National Party overturned a big Labour majority to take the seat of Glasgow East, a working-class area that is longtime Labour territory. The Scottish nationalists say the result of Thursday's vote is a political earthquake. Labour won Glasgow East by more than 13,000 votes in the 2005 national election, but this time a huge voter swing saw SNP candidate John Mason take it by 365 votes. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered new political humiliation... [read full story]                    


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