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UK Labour Party loses vote in setback to Brown (Reuters)

25.07.2008 04:35 World - Source: Yahoo World

GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain's ruling Labour Party lost a parliamentary election in one of its traditional strongholds in a serious setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, results showed on Friday.

Defeat in Thursday's poll in Glasgow East, which Labour won with a huge 13,500 majority at the 2005 election, will fuel Labour discontent with Brown's leadership and could lead to moves to oust him, some analysts believe.

(Reporting by Golnar Motevalli, Adrian Croft; Editing by Dominic Evans)

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