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Tue 07 Jul 2008Glasgow East basks in sun as Labour fears a roasting
BRITAIN:BATHED IN brilliant sunshine, Glasgow yesterday served up a series of warm welcomes and pleasant surprises. And the city's East End (or at least the parts I visited) contrived to look anything but the Third World throwback some coverage of Thursday's byelection might have suggested.
This indeed provided a rare point of agreement between the rival Labour and Scottish National Party camps, battling hard for every vote in a tough contest that might well trigger another crisis for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's leadership.
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