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Anas Sarwar

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  1. “This Normal situation, I would want my kids to grow up in. So the idea of being in politics really, really repulsed me. And then when I started off as an NHS dentist in Paisley,”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Who are dead against the idea of electing Britain's first Muslim Member of Parliament And obvious Me and shook our family”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “And every day of me being in politics is every day of labor being in opposition when I was in Westminster or in opposition when I'm in the Scottish Parliament. So I need to break that duck in the election. Well, you do.”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Absolutely. Oh, it's really funny because he makes a point even to this day of reminding me that every day he was a member of parliament was every day of the Labour Party being in government”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Studied to be a dentist and worked in the NHS as a dentist, and it's one of the reasons why my dad and I fell out at one point because he was very keen for me to be a politician. I was desperate not to be.”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Because of many of the dark things that we had to experience because either he wanted to be a politician or after he became an elected member in the House of Commons, it really put me off politics. I hated the idea of being an elected member.”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “While lots of people, it's interesting you mentioned about both my mum and my dad, it's really interesting because lots of people think that automatically somehow maybe I get my”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Look, I mean, I had a really Umbriing in the sense of I was being brought up in a household where My dad, when I was in my really early years, trying to set up”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Was making abundantly clear that my first priority and my first loyalty is to my country Scotland and frankly I don't really care what people in Westminster think I only care what people in Scotland think. You must care who the Prime Minister is. Look, I'm not doing it to run against a UK Labour government. I'm running against a Scottish S&P government. Let's be honest. Are we spending every penny a public money well? We're not. We will demonstrate to the rest of the UK how you can win in the politics of hope and unity, not feed off the politics of despair.”

    2026-04-19 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 185. Can Labour Win Back Scotland? (Anas Sarwar) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source