The victory over the SNP in Rutherglen and Hamilton West exceeded the party's wildest expectations.
A decade ago, it was fashionable for opponents of the Conservatives to scoff that Scotland had more pandas than it had Tory MPs.With a resounding victory in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, Sir Keir Starmer has now met, though not yet exceeded, Scotland's political panda threshold.
This win, in which the party turned an SNP majority of 5,230 into a Labour lead of 9,446, with a swing between the two parties of 20.4%, is a huge boost. In the closing stages of this campaign, the Labour leader described the South Lanarkshire seat as a "big prize", insisting that success here would be "a milestone" on his party's "hard road" back to power.
Ferrier's behaviour was a hot topic on the doorsteps during the campaign but activists for both Labour and the SNP say the stand-out issues were the state of the NHS and the high cost of living.Still, Rutherglen and Hamilton West really was a must-win seat if Labour's revival is to have any credibility at all.
These days it is a dormitory suburb of Glasgow and the air is clear but a century ago the town was ablaze with heavy industry. Supporters of independence hailed that as a seminal moment, with Mrs Ewing herself declaring: "Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on." "If… we can demonstrate competence, demonstrate that change is possible, then I think you'll get people to move on that," he told me on the eve of polling.
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