Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar calls on Keir Starmer to stand down

Starmer and Sarwar at a rally in Glasgow in 2023. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, has called on Keir Starmer to stand down, throwing the prime minister’s leadership of the country into serious peril.

At a hastily arranged press conference in Glasgow, the senior Labour politician said: “The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street has to change.”