Labour has won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.
The Labour candidate Michael Shanks won 58.5 percent of the vote to the SNP’s 27.6 percent, a 20.4 percent swing since 2019
The Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer called the result “seismic” and the “culmination of three and a half years of hard work and humility.”
The winning candidate Shanks said in his victory speech that “There’s no part of this country where Labour can’t win.”
