Anas Sarwar
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I was making it abundantly clear that my first priority and my first loyalty is to my country, Scotland.
And frankly, I don't really care what people in Westminster think.
I only care what people in Scotland think.
You must care who the prime minister is.
Look, I'm not doing it to run against a UK Labour government.
I'm running against a Scottish SNP government.
Let's be honest.
Are we spending every penny of public money well?
We're not.
We will demonstrate to the rest of the UK how you can win in the politics of hope and unity, not feed off the politics of despair.
I'm happy not to be polite, Rony, and don't let me skirt.
Cut to the chase.
I'm happy to cut to the chase.
Yeah, look, I mean, I had a really different upbringing in the sense of I was being brought up in a household where my dad, when I was in my really early years, trying to set up and doing it really well, successful family business, successful wholesale business.
And then wanting to become a councillor in the city of Glasgow.
And then obviously wanting to become Britain's first Muslim member of parliament.
And while lots of people, it's interesting you mentioned about both my mum and my dad, it's really interesting because lots of people think that automatically somehow maybe I get my politics from my dad.
But in actual fact, I always say that the best politician in our family
and the person that's probably got the most values based in terms of that politics is probably my mum, and she's probably a much better politician than I or my father would ever be.
But just think about upbringing a house full of love,