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Victory in Hamilton by Davy Russell signals growing challenge to SNP and resistance to Farage's Reform UK
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Labour pulled off a shock win in a key Scottish by-election seen as a test of its ability to fend off the rise of Reform UK and wrest Holyrood from the SNP’s control.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party, led by Anas Sarwar in Scotland, won the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, reconfiguring the political outlook ahead of next year’s elections.
