Second try for defeated candidate

The defeated Labour candidate in the Glasgow East by-election is planning to fight the seat again.

Margaret Curran is to seek her party's nomination to stand in the Westminster seat at the next UK election.

Glasgow East was Labour's third safest Westminster seat in Scotland before it was won by the SNP by just 365 votes.

Ms Curran, the MSP for Glasgow Ballieston and a former Scottish minister, believes she could overturn the slim majority.

Ms Curran's Holyrood seat could also be under threat under proposed constituency boundary changes currently being considered.

"I am a fighter"
Margaret Curran
Labour MSP

The SNP's John Mason overturned a Labour majority of 13,507 in Glasgow East when the seat came up for grabs after the sitting MP, David Marshall, stood down on health grounds.

Ms Curran admitted that Labour had been given a wake-up call, but had listened and changed as a result.

She went on: "I am a fighter.

"I said during the by-election that if you want a job done properly, ask a busy woman to do it. There is a job to be done in the east end of Glasgow and that's why I am putting my name forward again."

Mr Mason said Ms Curran was clearly "hedging her bets" amid the boundary review.

"Since winning this year's by-election it's been a privilege representing the people of Glasgow East and one I plan to maintain at the general election," he said.

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