Keir Starmer's party hopes it is on the verge of a breakthrough in Scotland, as the Rutherglen poll nears.
- is being seen as a key test of whether Labour are making a comeback in Scotland, as polls suggest.
Labour went into freefall after the independence referendum in 2014. The following year, it lost 40 seats in Scotland and returned just one MP. But for a while, Labour strategists have thought it's possible the party could return 20 or more MPs in Scotland at the next general election.
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