Does the 'Brown bounce' end here?
Peter Hoskin 9:01am
And so the polls have opened in an election closer to home: the Glenrothes byelection. We should see a result by the early hours of tomorrow morning, but the current expectation is that the SNP will come out narrowly on top. Both the betting markets and party insiders are playing down Labour's chances. Whilst Alex Salmond is sounding typically bullish.
Will a Labour loss mark the end of this latest 'Brown bounce'? Almost certainly - and not least of all because Brown has invested himself, and his wife, so heavily in this...
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