Solidarity To Seek Socialist Unity in Glasgow North East Solidarity has agreed to renew efforts to foster left unity across Scotland and specifically to encourage a single left candidate in the forthcoming Glasgow North by-election. Solidarity will contact the leading left trade unions in Scotland again to appeal to them to gather the left groups and

Labour claimed victory in the Glasgow North East by-election in a result that will be a boost to Gordon Brown. The by-election resulted from the resignation of Michael Martin, the former Commons speaker who stepped down over MPs' expenses

The date of the Glasgow North East by-election, caused by the resignation of Commons Speaker Michael Martin, is officially confirmed.

VOTERS are today casting their verdict in the Glasgow North East by-election, the seat made vacant by the resignation of the Commons Speaker Michael Martin.

Someone had to walk over the MPs expenses fiasco and unfortunately for Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin it was him. Things didn’t look too rosy for the veteran Glasgow MP when he steadfastly refused to entertain any discussion of his own future during a Commons statement earlier this week. As more and

"Hope you are going to pay your expenses back" yells a passerby at the man who is the hot favourite in the contest to replace Michael Martin in the House of Commons.

Cross-border splits appear to be emerging in the Labour Party about the timing of a by-election in Glasgow North East following the resignation of Michael Martin as Speaker of the House of Commons and local MP.

In an attempt to turn around my betting fortunes my eye has turned to the Glasgow North East by-election, set for 12th November. The seat It's the former Commons Speaker Michael Martin's, who stood down disgraced and considerably more well off. In an area that has a high rate of poverty opinions are mixed, some having empathy for a local man saying he was a set-up, others that he's a greedy haggis...

Bizarre scenes in the House of Commons as Speaker Michael Martin faces allround calls to step down over the expenses crisis.

Michael Martin rounds angrily on MPs who have criticised the way Commons authorities have handled issue Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, told MPs today that they had to consider "the spirit of what is right" when claiming parliamentary expenses. In a statement on the Daily Telegraph's publication of the details of MPs' expenses, Martin said that Commons would soon set up a new unit t...