Anas Sarwar's joke about Keir Starmer told a truth about his election chances

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Sarwar's chances of becoming First Minister may rest in the hands of Rachel Reeves.

Anas Sarwar cracked a telling joke at a business reception with Chancellor Rachel Reeves in Glasgow this week.

He wants Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s workers’ rights package pushed through and GB Energy up and running. She is the architect of a strategy of fixing the rotten foundations of a broken UK economy before fiscal expansion can take place.

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