First Minister Alex Salmond has declared that there are no safe Labour seats in Scotland in the wake of the SNP's stunning victory in Glasgow East. By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor He said that if the same 23 per cent swing was repeated at the next General Election, all but one Labour MPs in Scotland - including Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling - would lose their seats. Labour suffered the humiliating loss of its third safest seat north of the Border, after the Scottish Nationalists managed to overhaul its 13,507 majority. The result sent shockwaves across the country and could signify the end of more than half of century of Labour political hegemony in Scotland. It erodes the last of the three keystones on which Labour has held power - its powerful bloc of 38 Scottish MPs - as the SNP has already overtaken the...
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