First minister Alex Salmond insists the SNP will win the Glasgow East by election, despite a poll putting Labour in the lead.

It seems that Alex Salmond has expressed a degree of support for Thatcher's economic policies. If he is positioning the SNP as a more authentically social-democratic alternative to Labour, then that seems a strange thing to say. It could also backfire, since one of the SNP leaflets in Glasgow East showed the photo of Brown with Thatcher - implying that they were anti-Thatcherite whereas Labour was...

ALEX SALMOND will today launch his party's campaign to win the Glasgow North East by-election.

FIRST Minister Alex Salmond was under fire today after it was revealed he twice used his government limo to get to the SNP's campaign headquarters in the Glasgow East by-e

ALEX Salmond has insisted the SNP's aim of winning 20 Westminster seats is still the right target, as his party gears up for its last big rally before the general election

On the stump: He might have got through the darker days of the SNP on a diet of Lucozade and curry, but Alex Salmond stuck firmly to fresh Scottish produce as he visited a Glasgow supermarket in Glasgow East yesterday.

The Daily Record have the story. Basically the SNP councillor Jahangir Hanif (above right with Alex Salmond) has stated that he will bring the SNP Deputy Nicola Sturgeon to see Glasgow slummage ... and he's one of the landlords.UPDATE: Glasgow East End Labour Blog HERE.LoL site feed

LABOUR accused the SNP leader Alex Salmond of misleading voters over police numbers.

Alex Salmond will today launch a major election campaign aimed at convincing voters the SNP are not separatists determined to rip Scotland out of the United Kingdom.

Last week, I argued that the Glasgow North East by-election would force the SNP to alter its tactics. The Scottish press are reporting that Salmond will scrap his plans for a straight referendum on independence in favour of a multi-option poll on what further powers Holyrood should assume, short of independence. Such a withdrawal was being mooted before the election but has been accelerated by the...