Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has been accused of trying to “sabotage” his party’s only council pact with the SNP. Labour and the Nationalists agreed in May to run Dumfries and Galloway together, but Sarwar has downplayed the agreement as “interim”.
This is in spite of Labour ’s co-leader on the local authority saying there is no time limit for the deal.
SNP MSP Emma Harper said: “It’s hardly surprising that Anas Sarwar is more intent on wrecking any working relationship with the SNP than protecting his grubby deals with the Tories in local authorities across Scotland. Anas Sarwar’s Labour has followed the Tories’ lead to block Scotland’s return to the EU, to deny Scotland’s democratic choice of an independent future and to escape toxic Westminster cuts.”
