Labour’s by-election win and the road to the next election
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🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It was triggered after former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier was removed from her seat after breaking COVID guidelines.
The win could have implications for the next general election. If the swing was repeated across Scotland it would see a rise in the number of Labour MPs from just 2 to over 40 and so a big boost to Sir Keir Starmer’s bid to enter 10 Downing Street.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by our Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies and Sky’s election analyst Michael Thrasher to dig into the result and look at how it may influence the political landscape in the run up to a general election next year.
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| 1:03.5 | In a week which hasn't exactly been short of politics, |
| 1:06.3 | what better way to head into the weekend than with a cheeky wee by-election. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm Neil Patterson, and on this edition of the Sky News Daily, what we're going to be looking in depth at that |
| 1:15.6 | pretty remarkable Labour victory in the Scottish seat of Rutherland and Hamilton West. Now, as |
| 1:21.0 | always, it is important to say that by-elections are but litmus tests, that you cannot |
| 1:26.1 | directly extrapolate out what will happen at a general election from a single result. |
| 1:32.4 | That said, that's no doubt exactly what we're going to be doing with our two guests. |
| 1:36.3 | Connor Gillis is our Scotland correspondent and Professor Michael Thrasher, our elections supremo chaps, great to have you both on. |
| 1:43.0 | But Connor, to you you first before we get into |
| 1:45.5 | the result remind us exactly what led to this by-election so this has been a long-running saga |
| 1:51.7 | triggered by the former SMP MP Margaret ferrier the woman who traveled to london and then knowing she had coronavirus, traveled back on a train to Glasgow, |
| 2:08.1 | toured around various places. She ended up in the courts over that and faced criminal sanctions as a result of what she ended up doing. That then triggered a petition, |
| 2:21.5 | recall petition, within the House of Commons, which essentially led to her being ousted. |
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