The pop anthem booming out of the tannoy as Anas Sarwar emerged at his party’s annual conference in February was “Unstoppable,” by the Australian star Sia.
His party is now widely tipped to end the SNP’s stranglehold in Scotland when Britain goes to the polls in the general election on July 4. In nine of the 11 Scotland-only opinion polls since the election was called, Scottish Labour has led the SNP. It stands a serious chance of becoming the largest party in Scotland for the first time in almost a decade.
Mohammed Sarwar was relieved of his post in 2022, by the former PM Imran Khan’s government — just weeks before Khan himself was removed in a no-confidence vote. The rescue attempt was successful , and at a celebration afterward at the Sarwar family home, the policeman recalled being introduced by Sarwar Sr. to a small boy of about 13. “This is my son, Anas,” he said.
By that time Sarwar was already out delivering leaflets for Labour. He marched against the Iraq war in 2003, and wrote speeches for his MP father lambasting Tony Blair’s decision to support the conflict. A decade later, the two young men would face off in Holyrood at First Minister’s Questions — Yousaf as the pro-independence, SNP leader of Scotland, Sarwar as the pro-union Labour leader looking to replace him.
The SNP’s fortunes darkened further when, astonishingly, Sturgeon and her husband, the party’s former party executive, Peter Murrell, were arrested weeks after her resignation in connection with a police probe into the SNP’s finances. Sturgeon was released without charge pending further investigation. Murrell has since been charged with embezzlement.
Sarwar has a ready charm and is close to the Holyrood press pack in a way that more aloof politicians, such as Sturgeon, never were. At the U.K. party’s last annual conference in October last year, Sarwar was often found holding court in Liverpool’s Pullman Hotel. Figures as senior as Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves would approach for a chat. He refers to everyone, from senior journalists to shadow Cabinet ministers, as “chief.
The focus on the multiple scandals engulfing both the SNP in Scotland and the Conservatives in Westminster, Sarwar has been fortunate to escape the glare of scrutiny. That is likely to change now he is a serious contender to become the next first minister.Sarwar might argue that he had earned some good fortune after a difficult first decade in politics.
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