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Labour loses vote

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.

(China Daily 07/26/2008 page11)