The Inverclyde by-election is business as usual for Scottish voters

Coming so soon after the SNP’s storming victory in the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May, many had expected an SNP victory, or at least a very close result, in last weeks’ Inverclyde by-election. Lewis Baston writes that while Labour’s victory comes as a surprise (as does the poor Liberal Democrat showing), the result does not indicate a real swing back to Labour from the SNP.