Anas Sarwar speaks to the Guardian about why he thinks the polls are wrong and how he hopes to end the SNP’s near 20-year dominance at Holyrood
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nas Sarwar says he is certain he can pull off one of the greatest escape acts of modern British politics. It is 14 days until the Holyrood election, and the polls consistently show Scottish Labour is in a battle simply to come second, never mind win.
Those polls are wrong, Sarwar says, and in two weeks plans to prove it. Claiming to be “more than happy” with his party’s underdog status, the Scottish Labour leader insists the media are too obsessed by polling numbers.
Now that postal voting packs have arrived Labour’s canvassers report that many among the unusually high number of undecided voters in this election are shifting towards Labour, he says.
