According to Peter Hoskin
The post mortem now begins for the other parties. All will be asking questions and having questions asked of them. The SNP: whether their nationalist approach works during an economic downturn, when the Scottish public may be less inclined to be cast adrift from Westminster and the cash it represents. The Tories: how to fashion a coherent message on the economy, on which they're currently being lorded over by the Government. And the Lib Dems: why they don't seem to be registering with the electorate at all.
Peter makes a good point as to how the other party's failed to make any real inroads into Labour in the midst of a financial crisis and the start of a massive downturn in the economy.
But perhaps for Labour John Craig sums it up quite well
What a change from the dismal defeat in Glasgow East on July 24, which triggered David Miliband's demand for change in his explosive Guardian newspaper article and a frenzied summer of Labour MPs calling on the Prime Minister to quit
So can we read anything into this?
John Harris is clear that it shows more about the SNP than Labour
the SNP may well fit this morning's favourite cliche, and be increasingly seen as the party of the establishment
But nationwide?
any Brown bounce is looking remarkably fragile. Recent work by the Glasgow-based psephologist John Curtice suggests that though Labour's poll ratings were boosted by their show of purposeful unity at their Manchester conference, and in spite of Brown's revived confidence ever since, their national figures have pretty much flatlined at around 31%
