"He didn't shout and there was no noise."

"Next year there is a chance to turbo charge delivery by putting Labour in power on both sides of the border."Reform UK finished third on 7,088 votes, with the Tories in fourth on 1,621.

The turnout was 44.2%, with more than 27,000 votes cast. It is a drop on the 2021 election when turnout was 60%.The result means Scottish Labour has overturned a majority of 4,582 won by McKelvie in 2021.in March after being diagnosed with secondary breast cancer.

Sarwar told BBC Scotland News that his party had "proven the pollsters wrong, the political commentators wrong and the bookies wrong".He said the result showed voters were "scunnered" with the SNP and that Reform were "not at the races".

The by-election result follows a difficult period for Scottish Labour since it swept the SNP aside in last summer's general election.

The party had seen its support drop in the polls, with some suggesting Reform could beat Labour to second place in next year's Holyrood elections."There is no need to wait another 608 agonising days for this," it said. "The mission can be completed as early as tomorrow morning. This is what the majority of the Israeli people want."

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the unprecedented cross-border attack almost 20 months ago, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.Another four people, two of them dead, were already being held captive in Gaza before the conflict.

So far, 199 hostages have been returned, 148 of them alive, mostly through two temporary ceasefire deals with Hamas.At least 54,677 people have been killed in Gaza during the war, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.