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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks

Scottish Labour urges Keir Starmer to stay out of Holyrood campaign

Sarwar and Starmer on stage in blue suits
Anas Sarwar (left) with Keir Starmer at the Scottish Labour party conference last February. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Keir Starmer and senior ministers have been urged by Scottish Labour to “stay behind their doors” in Whitehall to avoid turning the next Holyrood election into a referendum on UK government failures.

Anas Sarwar, the leader of Scottish Labour, said the prime minister’s policy failures and missteps had left voters “angry, frustrated and impatient”, leaving his party clear underdogs before May’s election.

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