Labour byelection win shows ‘SNP’s balloon has burst’, says Anas Sarwar
by Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6XSXR)
Scottish Labour leader accuses SNP of misinformation in its campaign and attacks Reform's dirty' tactics
Scottish Labour's surprise byelection win proves the SNP's balloon has burst", a jubilant Anas Sarwar has said, after the popular local candidate Davy Russell defied predictions to beat the incumbent Scottish National party and fight off Reform UK's racist" campaigning in the central Scotland seat of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse.
Sarwar told a victory rally in Hamilton town centre on Friday morning that Labour had proved everyone wrong following speculation that Reform UK might push it into third place, as the rightwing populist party gained ground in Scotland for the first time.
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