Скачать или смотреть Hamilton by-election: Starmer hails 'fantastic' Scotland by-election win over SNP and Reform

People will need to “change the script” on Scottish Labour after the party’s surprise win in Hamilton, the party’s leader has said.

Davy Russell took the seat vacated by the death of Scottish Government minister and SNP MSP Christina McKelvie.

The deputy lord lieutenant of Lanarkshire, who has never held elected office, beat out SNP candidate Katy Loudon, who fell to her third defeat since 2023.

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