Quintin Jardine's blog

Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, has declared that the people must decide who leads Scotland.

I had time for the guy until I read that, for there are a couple of gaps in his logic. When his party fulfilled its manifesto promise in 1999 by setting up the Scottish Parliament, the voting system was put in place in the expectation that there would never be a majority administration, and that if by some chance there was it would always be Labour.

In fact ‘the people have decided’ only once, when the SNP won 69 seats out of 129. On every other occasion we have had a minority government, or a deal cobbled together behind closed doors.

And then there’s Anas’s own position. Did the people vote for him? I don’t think so.