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by Neil Findlay, outgoing Labour MSP

IT’S very clear that Anas Sarwar had a decent campaign. There was no internal criticism of the way the campaign was run, and he had his team at the helm throughout.
Like previous leaders, he attempted to get the election onto issues of health, education and jobs — badged up as a “national recovery.”
But the reality is that this was just a repeat of the strategy that has been tried in the past, where the likes of Kezia Dugdale spoke about “kids not cuts” and working together.
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