Scottish special election a test for UK’s Brown (AP)

The Labour Party's Glenrothes by-election candidate Lindsay Roy, right, and former Labour Party government minister John Prescott campaign in Glenrothes Scotland Wednesday Nov, 5, 2008. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is not on the ballot, but the special election in Scotland on Thursday will indicate whether his response to the world economic crisis has revived his flagging electoral fortunes. The election in Glenrothes, a small former coal mining town, is the first since Brown launched an unprecedented and widely praised 37 billion pound (US$63 billion) bailout of some of Britain's leading banks last month. The slogan on the banner refers to the Scottish National Party who are expected to be the Labour Party's main opposition for the parliamentary seat.. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson/PA)AP - A special election Thursday in Scotland is being seen as a measure of whether Prime Minister Gordon Brown's handling of the global financial crisis has raised his popularity.

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