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The Latest Breaking News from Scottish Labour

Scottish Tory manifesto to launch with focus on tax and cutting benefits bills

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay is set to make a speech in Edinburgh on Tuesday.

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Scottish Labour pledge pothole fund to fix ‘sorry state’ of Scotland’s roads

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is vowing to fix Scotland’s roads.

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Fact check: Scottish waiting lists, Easter eggs and rumours about a Plymouth hotel

Round-up of fact checks from the last few days compiled by Full Fact.

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Reform could rerun ‘racist’ attack ad against Anas Sarwar

A party candidate said he could not rule out re-airing the ad that claimed the Scottish Labour leader would prioritise Pakistani people.

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Swinney says SNP improving NHS as lung and heart health ‘MOTs’ plan announced

The First Minister and Health Secretary visited a pharmacy on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

SNP pledge to open ‘heart and lung MOT’ centres

The centres would screen for diseases including cancer, COPD and heart disease.

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Sarwar rules out deal with Reform as he accuses Swinney of being ‘desperate’

The First Minister last week suggested there was potential for a ‘grubby backroom’ deal between Labour and Reform.

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Labour pledge two weeks of funded summer childcare in Scotland

Scottish Labour said the policy would only involve additional funding for councils already running the clubs.

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Swinney to push for powers over energy if SNP wins election

The First Minister will visit the north-east of Scotland on Monday.

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Sarwar pledges to slash NHS waiting times and end 8am GP appointment ‘scramble’

The Scottish Labour leader said his party would ‘build a better future for Scotland’.

Evening Standard

Reform busy firefighting in Scotland but may yet set Holyrood’s politics ablaze

With Nigel Farage’s party neck and neck with Labour for second place behind the SNP, disruption seems likely

The Guardian - UK

Hospital openings delayed by ‘repeated mistakes’ from QEUH, claims Sarwar

The Scottish Labour leader made the comments during First Minister’s Questions on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Scottish Labour pledge to tackle ‘gross inequalities’ in cancer screening

The pledge comes ahead of the Holyrood elections in May.

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Sarwar ‘is his own man’ after his call for Starmer to quit, says Streeting

The Scottish Labour leader has stuck by his calls for the Prime Minister to step down.

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Labour sees four-point bounce in latest poll while SNP on track for election win

The Ipsos Scotland poll spoke to 1,096 people between February 19 and 25.

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SNP would be ‘complacent’ to think Holyrood election is ‘in the bag’ – Alexander

Scottish Labour campaign co-chairman Douglas Alexander accepted however his party are underdogs for the May election.

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May election could be Labour’s ‘only chance’ to oust SNP – Anas Sarwar

The Scottish Labour leader was speaking as he addressed his party’s conference in Paisley.

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Sarwar gambles on break with Starmer as Labour support slumps

Scottish Labour leader hopes distancing himself from PM will shift focus to SNP’s record, but voters remain unconvinced

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Scottish Labour calls for Lord Advocate ministerial code investigation

Dame Jackie Baillie has written to the Scottish Government’s Independent Advisers on the Ministerial Code.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Scottish Labour: Keir Starmer needs Anas Sarwar’s act of betrayal to pay off

Editorial: The leader of Scottish Labour will use its spring conference to demonstrate that he is his own man. Ironically, the prime minister’s survival may depend on his success

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‘Idiotic’ for John Swinney to attack other groups as ‘dodgy’, Anas Sarwar says

The Scottish Labour leader told the SNP the party had ‘huge questions to answer themselves’ as they attacked a Labour think tank.

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Public will value my honesty in call for Starmer to quit, says Sarwar

The Scottish Labour leader was pressed on whether his own position has been weakened by the events of this week.

Evening Standard

Labour is united behind Sarwar’s bid to be next first minister – Alexander

The Scottish Secretary has sought to downplay divisions within the party after its Scottish leader called on the PM to quit.

The Guardian - UK

Anas Sarwar says Starmer can campaign in Scotland after calling for him to quit

Scottish Labour leader agrees PM can support party’s effort to win May’s Holyrood election in abrupt about-face

The Guardian - UK

No 10 confident Sarwar acted alone in call for Starmer to go

Downing Street initially feared Scottish Labour leader’s move was part of a wider leadership challenge

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