ANAS Sarwar is the Scottish Labour group leader at Holyrood and an ally of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Sarwar won a leadership election to take over the Scottish Labour MSP group in 2021, after Richard Leonard was forced out by Starmer.
Read on for the latest news and updates about Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.
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When did Anas Sarwar become the Scottish Labour leader?
Anas Sarwar bid to lead the Scottish Labour group in the 2017 contest to replace Kezia Dugdale. However, he lost out to the left-wing candidate Richard Leonard.
When was Anas Sarwar first elected as a politician?
Anas Sarwar was first elected as an MP at Westminster in the 2010 General Election. He had been selected to run in Glasgow Central in the place of his retiring father, millionaire businessman Mohammad Sarwar.
In the 2015 General Election, Sarwar lost the seat to the SNP’s Alison Thewliss.
When was Anas Sarwar elected to the Scottish Parliament?
In the 2021 Holyrood elections, Sarwar was again voted in to represent the Glasgow region as a list MSP. He had also stood in Glasgow Southside against Nicola Sturgeon, but lost by a significant margin of around 2:1.
When and where was Anas Sarwar born?
Anas Sarwar was born on March 14, 1983. He is currently 42 years old.
He was born in Glasgow, the area he represents at Holyrood.
What school did Anas Sarwar go to?
Anas Sarwar was privately educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School. One of the oldest schools in Scotland, it was founded in 1641.
Sarwar was at the school at the same time as former SNP leader and first minister Humza Yousaf.
He then went on to study dentistry at the University of Glasgow.
Anas Sarwar wife
Sarwar is married to Furheen, an NHS dentist. They have three children together.
Anas Sarwar father
Sarwar's father, Mohammad Sarwar, became the UK’s first ever Muslim MP when he won the Glasgow Govan seat in the 1997 general election.
Mohammed Sarwar and his brother founded United Wholesale (Scotland) after he moved to Scotland from Pakistan in the 1970s.
The family business is a “cash and carry” business which supplies a range of products, from frozen food items to tobacco and grocery.
Its depots are located in several places, including in Pollokshields and on the M9 between Grangemouth and Falkirk.
The firm was in the headlines last year after Anas Sarwar claimed it does not pay all of its workers the real living wage.
He was questioned on the BBC’s Sunday Show, during which he said: “I don’t believe that every single staff member is on the real living wage.”
The union representing the workers, however, insisted that the workers are paid at least the real living wage.
