Fraser Nelson

Glasgow East is Brown’s dirty little secret: a hideous, costly social experiment gone wrong

Glasgow East symbolises — as few other places in Britain can — the fact that the problem Labour faces is not just lack of leadership but lack of mission. What is to be seen in this constituency encapsulates and dramatises Labour’s abject failures to comprehend, let alone tackle, the nature of the poverty which grips our council estates.<br /> <em>For all the latest on the Glasgow East by-election, visit <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/">Coffee House</a></em>

• From magazine issue: 05 July 2008