LOOKING back, the moment the SNP won the Glasgow East by-election last summer was obvious. Visiting the Garrowhill Bowling Club in Baillieston one Saturday morning, Alex Salmo

The final list of candidates has been confirmed as: Charlie Baillie, British National Party Willie Bain, Labour Eileen Baxendale, Liberal Democrats Mev Brown, independent Colin Campbell, The Individuals Labour and Tory (TILT) Ruth Davidson, Conservative David Doherty, Green Party Mikey Hughes David Kerr, SNP Louise McDaid, Socialist Labour Party Kevin McVey, Scottish Socialist Party - Make Greed H...

LABOUR says it has learned from defeat in last year's Glasgow East by-election as it prepares to take on the SNP in a nearby constituency.

Do you remember around the time of the Glasgow East by-election that Labour were worried that they were haemorraging Catholic votes to the SNP? (See Political Betting: Will Catholics abandon Labour?) Well Quentin Letts reckons that Gordon’s move to abolish the Act of Settlement is a Papist plot to keep the green half of Scotland

[Start polling details] At tonight’s launch of a Microsoft/Hansard Society report into MPs’ use of the internet, The Times’s Peter Riddell revealed an interesting snippet of information about YouGov’s panel for its political polls might be: YouGov decided it couldn’t do any polls during the Glasgow East by-election because it had only around 100 panel members

The defeated Labour candidate in the Glasgow East by-election, Margaret Curran, is planning to fight the seat again.

I see that Gordon Brown has been spotted north of the border campaigning in the Glenrothes by-election. Readers will recall that he chose NOT to campaign in  the Glasgow East by-election which Labour subsequently lost. So the big question will be to see what, if any, impact his presence makes when the voters go to the polls on 6th November? I believe Labour will lose yet again and that any no...

THE SNP has held the local government seat left vacant by John Mason, who resigned to fight – and win – the Glasgow East by-election in July.

It's a fickle business politics. The man who resigned his ministerial job tonight to call for a leadership election declared on television just a few weeks ago that Gordon Brown was the right man to see us through. That, though, was before Labour lost the Glasgow East by-election which David Cairns had campaigned in day after day. Mr Cairns insists that he's not part of a plot and had re...

First it was a backbench MP. Then it was a junior whip. Next it will be a Minister of State. When will a Cabinet Minister get some cojones? David Cairns is expected to make a statement later this morning confirming that he thinks there should be a leadership election. Cairns is Minister of State at the Scotland Office and played a leading role in the Glasgow East by-election. He is said to be relu...