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 Let’s not get too excited about Labour’s victory in Scottish by-election…they did it by behaving just like the Tories. Is this honestly a taste of what is to come?

‘This time, Labour ran its campaign attacking the SNP for allowing councils to raise council tax rates, for a planned congestion charge mooted by SNP councillors to enter neighbouring Glasgow (ignoring the implicit rejection of Labour’s support for London’s congestion charge), and for suggestions income tax might go up again.’