GORDON Brown will return to the campaign trail this week to help shore up votes in one of Labour’s former heartlands.
Despite Scottish Labour focusing on Edinburgh South, East Lothian and East Renfrewshire, the former Prime Minister will hold a rally on Saturday in Fife.
He and former deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott are due to appear in Kirkcaldy.
The pair will be joined by two local candidates: Lesley Laird, who is standing in Mr Brown’s old seat of Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, and Cara Hilton in Dunfermline & West Fife.
An email sent to Labour activists about the event made no mention of either the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn or Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale attending.
Ms Laird is challenging the SNP’s Roger Mullin, who had a 9,974-vote majority in 2015, while Ms Hilton, a former MSP, is fighting Douglas Chapman, who won by 10,352 over Labour.
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