I dont know how you follow the double act of ian murray and jackie baillie. Thank you for everything you brought to the campaign. Delighted to be here. Ijust want to echo some of what we said last night. This is a remarkable result. I want to talk a bit about the thousands of people we lead during this campaign. We have spent six months on every single story in this constituency, talking to voters at every single door about their hopes, their aspirations, their dreams, their aspirations, their dreams, their fears, their aspirations, their dreams, theirfears, their their aspirations, their dreams, their fears, their concerns for this community. It has been the honour of my life to talk to all those people, to get to know them. To find out from them what they want their mp to fight for an hour to be their mp, to have their chance to represent them is incredible. This result shows not only that people are fed up with the two governments that are distracted, out of touch, but also that the
Candidate katie loudon, who came second. Thats a swing from snp to labourof snp to labour of slightly more than 20 . The scottish Labour Leader says that the results show that Scottish Politics has fundamentally changed. This comes after the removal of snp mp Margaret Ferrier who was removed after breaking coronavirus rules. Michael shanks, Scottish Labour Party, 17,831. This was a stunning victory widely forecast but not with a win and a swing as big as this. Its time for change. That change cant come fast enough but one thing is now clear, there is no part of this country where labour cant win. Winning hamilton and Rutherglen West doubles the number of seats labour has in scotland from one to two. Small numbers but the party has big ambitions ahead. Its an extraordinary win and i think this is a seismic night here in scotland and a historic one and i think Scottish Politics has fundamentally changed and i think people in rutherglen and Hamilton West have sent a very clear message tha