CONGRATULATIONS to my new colleague, Willie Bain, newly-elected Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East.

Terrific result – better than my own rather modest prediction of a 3000 Labour majority. Far too early to start making sweeping predictions about the parties’ prospects in the wake of this result. I’ll just say “well done”, not only to Willie, but to Colin Smyth and all his staff at the Scottish Labour Party for running an outstanding campaign. Particular personal congrats to the formidable Kate Watson and her fellow Labour organisers who ran a fantastic operation out of the Roebank Street committee rooms in Dennistoun.

It’s been a blast, folks.