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I want Reform to get ‘absolutely pumped’ in next month’s election – Anas Sarwar
The plan would fund crisis loans, cheaper fuel and supermarket savings as Labour says it will act if global instability keeps pushing up prices.
- Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar pledged £100 million in emergency support within his first 100 days, citing international instability threatening Scottish households and businesses. The package includes increasing Warm Home Discount uptake and topping up tax-free childcare to £3,000 per child.
- Sarwar attacked the SNP Government's economic record, claiming that after 20 years, families struggle to make ends meet. He asserted SNP leader John Swinney has "chosen to raise taxes on working Scots" while wasting money on bureaucracy.
- During Thursday's BBC Question Time in Aberdeen, SNP housing secretary Mairi McAllan said new North Sea drilling decisions must be "led by evidence." Separately, Sarwar argued the Labour Government should honour licences granted by the previous Conservative administration.
- Tensions erupted as Sarwar and Reform UK Scottish leader Lord Malcolm Offord clashed over alleged deal-making claims. Sarwar dismissed the suggestion as "nonsense," saying he wants Reform to get "absolutely pumped" in the upcoming Holyrood election.
- Calling on voters to "utterly reject" Reform on May 7, Sarwar emphasized that many families across Scotland fear the party's politics. He stressed his focus remains on building a better future rather than engaging in "psychodrama.
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I want Reform to get ‘absolutely pumped’ in next month’s election – Anas Sarwar
The Scottish Labour leader was again asked about claims he had approached Lord Malcolm Offord with an offer of working together to oust the SNP.
·London, United Kingdom
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BBC host Fiona Bruce tells Anas Sarwar 'no one at Westminster is listening to you'
BBC host Fiona Bruce told Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar that “the fact is back at Westminster, no one's listening” to him during a special Question Time broadcast from Aberdeen on Thursday ...
·Glasgow, United Kingdom
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