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The Conservatives have launched their campaign for the Glenrothes by-election, claiming they could provide a national voice on local concerns. | The Conservatives have launched their campaign for the Glenrothes by-election, claiming they could provide a national voice on local concerns. |
The Tories said they hoped to build on their July result in Glasgow East where they outpolled the Liberal Democrats. | The Tories said they hoped to build on their July result in Glasgow East where they outpolled the Liberal Democrats. |
The party's candidate, Maurice Golden, said he was fighting "to win". | The party's candidate, Maurice Golden, said he was fighting "to win". |
The Westminster seat has been vacant since the death of Labour MP John MacDougall in August. Polling will take | |
place on November 6. | |
The Conservatives claimed they were the only credible alternative to Labour in terms of Westminster power. | The Conservatives claimed they were the only credible alternative to Labour in terms of Westminster power. |
Mr Golden said a vote for the SNP was a vote for an uncertain future and a vote for Labour was "a vote for more of the failures of the last 11 years". | |
"People in Glenrothes can choose a safe change with the Conservatives - for a strong and confident Scotland within a strong and confident United Kingdom," he said. | |
"At a time when families are struggling with the soaring cost of living, this is not a time to reward either Gordon Brown's legacy of a broken economy or to stamp Alex Salmond's passport to separatism." | |
As we showed in Glasgow East, there aren't any no-go zones for the modern Conservative Party David CameronUK Conservative Party leader | |
Mr Golden, an environment campaign manager, said he would fight on bread and butter issues, such as the cost of living. | |
He said: "We're seeing a lot of people swinging, a lot of people undecided and I'm seeing on the doorsteps feedback that's very positive for the Conservatives." | He said: "We're seeing a lot of people swinging, a lot of people undecided and I'm seeing on the doorsteps feedback that's very positive for the Conservatives." |
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie MSP said the Conservatives offered voters safe change and real leadership. | |
"People have lost faith with Gordon Brown and his Labour government. | |
"They desperately want change, but they do not want the SNP's constant bickering with Westminster." | |
David Cameron, UK Conservative Party leader, said: "As we showed in Glasgow East, there aren't any no-go zones for the modern Conservative Party. | |
"Whether it's in rebuilding our economy and easing the pain on hard-working families, renewing our NHS and repairing our broken society, more and more people are looking at our vision and ideas and responding positively." | |
He added: "And in Maurice Golden, we have a first-class candidate, a Fifer bursting with energy and full of enthusiasm to serve the people of Glenrothes. | |
"I'll be up there with him - on the streets, campaigning and delivering our message of change." |
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