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Gordon Brown launching fresh campaign to keep Scotland in UK following SNP’s latest election victory
Former prime minister Gordon Brown speaks at a Scottish Labour drive-in rally in Glasgow

GORDON BROWN is launching a fresh campaign to keep Scotland in the UK following the SNP’s latest election victory. 

The former Labour prime minister said his think tank Our Scottish Future would become a “campaigning movement” to make the “positive, progressive and patriotic case for Scotland in Britain.”

Although Nicola Sturgeon’s party failing to win an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, the record eight Scottish Greens elected means that most MSPs — 72 out of 129 — favour a second referendum.

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