British Prime Minister's party suffers yet another electoral blow, this
time in Gordon Brown's stronghold.

 GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 25, 2008) ITN -

 Britain's ruling Labour Party lost an election for a parliamentary
seat in a traditional Labour stronghold, in a serious setback for Prime
Minister Gordon Brown, results showed on Friday (July 25). 
    Defeat in Thursday's (July 24) poll in the Glasgow East constituency,

which Labour won with a huge 13,500 majority in 2005, will fuel Labour
unhappiness with Brown's leadership and could lead to moves to oust him, some
analysts believe. 
    The pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) won by a slim

365-vote margin in Britain's third-largest city as voters turned against
Labour in droves. 
    The result, following a series of other recent Labour election defeats,
will strengthen expectations that Labour's 11 years in power may be nearing an

end and that it could be defeated at the next general election, due by 2010.

    The result added to the sense of crisis afflicting Brown, whose
popularity has slumped since he took over as prime minister from Tony Blair 13

months ago. 
    Brown and Labour have been hurt by the credit crisis, which has hit
economic growth and sent house prices sliding, and by rising food and energy
bills and the government's own political errors.