Gordon Brown is, according to The Sunday Mirror, finally going to take a proper holiday. The Brown family will head to East Anglia later this month for a week or so. But if Labour loses Glasgow East on the 24th of July, Brown might find the Labour party sending him off on a permanent vacation.
It looks like Labour has finally found a candidate, Margaret Curran—a Glasgow MSP, to stand in what would in normal circumstances be a very safe seat for the party. But as Andrew Rawnsley points out, Labour’s traditional strength here means that the party is not well-equipped to fight a competitive campaign; the Glasgow East branch of the party has less than 200 members and no canvassing records.
Labour’s majority in Glasgow East is formidable but it is possible to imagine that the SNP could pull this off.
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