Swinney using Reform’s ‘race baiting’ attack to score political points – Sarwar - video Dailymotion

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Scottish Labour’s leader Anas Sarwar has accused John Swinney of using Reform’s “race baiting” attack to score political points against him, saying he finds it “harder to stomach”.Last year’s Reform advert attacked Mr Sarwar, accusing him of seeking to prioritise Pakistani people.The ad quoted him calling for more representation for people from south Asian communities.Mr Sarwar has accused the SNP of using Reform’s message for their own political gain by suggesting that Labour would make a deal with the party.

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00:05Do I think reform will try and do race-baiting in this election campaign? Yes they will but

00:10I expect that from them. That is who they are and that's why Scotland I'm confident

00:14will reject them. What I find harder to stomach is why someone like John Swinney and the SNP

00:21would use the race-baiting of the reform party and use it as a way to attack me. So if

00:27you

00:27saw that race-baiting advert with the billboard that the reform party put up, at that very

00:35same event reform said that they were considering running that same racist ad against me. But

00:41what was the SNP's response? It was to say this is the people that Labour's going to do

00:46a deal with. Using the race-baiting to attack me when I'm the person that reform is trying

00:52to race-bait. I think that's beneath John Swinney and I think that's beneath the SNP. Let's

00:57have a debate on the ideas for this country. Let's have a debate on the future of our NHS

01:02in this country. The opportunities for our kids in this country. How we respect people's

01:06money. How we transform our communities and how we make sure this great country Scotland

01:10meets the needs and the aspirations of our amazing people.

01:13people.

01:14people.

Swinney using Reform’s ‘race baiting’ attack to score political points – Sarwar

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