2008-07-01
Following the confirmation of the Glasgow East by-election on 24th July, Alex Salmond has branded the decision to hold the contest during Glasgow fair, the traditional holiday season, as "blind panic" by a crumbling Labour Party.
2008-05-02
On the day Gordon Brown suffered humiliation at the polls south of the border an analysis of all Scottish by-elections held since the SNP won the historic 2007 election shows the SNP increasing its support at the expense of Labour.