Read More Here: "BY-ELECTION talk may be confined to anonymous whispers so far, but already the tone has turned nasty.
Labour sources have accused the SNP of underhand tactics by canvassing electors months before John MacDougall, the Labour MP for Glenrothes, died.
But the Nationalists have hit back, privately pointing out that it is even more opportunistic to ask a terminally ill MP to come down to Westminster to back the government's law to jail terror suspects for up to 42 days.
But even the SNP has not dared to move the writ to trigger a quick by-election.
It is conventional to let the incumbent constituency party chose the timing of any by-election. So far, the Tories and the SNP have refused to go against this, with each party hoping the other will make the move, plunging Labour into an earlier poll than it wants.
Labour is keen to delay a by-election for as long as possible to allow it to gain on the Nationalists, who have active machines on the ground after scooping the corresponding Holyrood seat."
Friday, 15 August 2008
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