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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Savage Policy Editor

‘Scunnered with the Tories, frustrated by the SNP’: Labour in bid to be Scotland’s biggest party

Labour candidate Gordon McKee talking to a constituent in Glasgow South.
Labour candidate Gordon McKee talking to a constituent in Glasgow South. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer

Not for the first time, Blair McDougall, Labour’s candidate in East Renfrewshire on the outskirts of Glasgow, is telling a wavering voter that the election here is “so, so close”.

If predictions of a knife-edge outcome weren’t enough to motivate him, many people – including some in Barrhead, which he is visiting today – have just received their postal ballots. Their votes will be cast in the next few days.

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