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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has insisted claims he could do a deal with Reform UK to oust the SNP in May’s Holyrood election are “utter nonsense”.Mr Sarwar blasted the “poisonous” politics of Nigel Farage’s party, and insisted its Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord, is a “chronic liar”.The attack came after Lord Offord used a TV election debate to claim that Mr Sarwar had approached him about the prospect of the two parties working together to remove the SNP from power in Scotland.

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00:00You've got a former studio open up, and how many staff have you got across?
00:06Of course, and also angry. I mean, I think you can see I was visibly angry on the stage,
00:11because it's utter nonsense. And the very idea that I would want to strike up a deal
00:18with the people who spend tens of thousands of pounds on adverts
00:21claiming that I'm not loyal to my country's government,
00:25with the very same people who want to use Glasgow's children
00:28as a campaign tool and lie about them,
00:30the very same people that want to put up a billboard in Glasgow
00:34claiming that it's been overrun by small boats and migrants,
00:38or the very same people whose one of their candidates says
00:41that even if you're a Muslim born in this country, you should be deported,
00:44that would include my children, or somehow people I want to work with,
00:49be in cahoots with, do a deal with, is frankly nonsense.
00:52And for John Swinney yesterday, not to use that moment
00:56to call out the poison of reform, like actually Julian Mackay quite rightly did,
01:01but instead use that to try and play politics against me,
01:04the very person that reform is trying to race me, is frankly pathetic
01:08and beneath John Swinney and the SNP.
01:11And it shows you everything you need to know about how divisive politics works in this country.
01:17All the reform and John Swinney want to do is play an us versus them.
01:22I want to bring our great country together to reject reform, beat the SNP, change Scotland,
01:28and the only way to do that is by voting Labour on May the 7th.
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