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