FOI reveals Anas Sarwar failed to raise £5bn welfare cuts with Rachel Reeves

What Anas Actually Said

The entire Scottish media and professional-politician community is currently in a self-righteous froth about a campaign ad being run by Reform for the Hamilton by-election targeting Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. Obviously none of the acres of press coverage trusts voters to see the ad and decide for themselves, because that simply isn’t how journalism […]

FOI reveals Anas Sarwar failed to raise £5bn welfare cuts with Rachel Reeves

ANAS Sarwar has failed to raise Labour’s cruel welfare cuts with Chancellor Rachel Reeves since they were announced, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request ...

Anas Sarwar Under Fire for Silence on Labour’s £5 Billion Welfare Cuts

Anas Sarwar is facing mounting criticism after it emerged he has yet to challenge Westminster over Labour’s plans to slash billions from the welfare budget. The cuts, first revealed in the UK Chancellor’s Spring Statement in March, amount to a staggering £4.8 billion reduction in welfare spending. According to the UK government’s own analysis, this move could push an additional 250,000 people into relative poverty by 2029, including 50,000 child…