LINKS to authoritarian regimes mean Labour must sever all links with former party leader and prime minister Tony Blair’s think tank, according to an SNP MP.

Just days after SNP leader Humza Yousaf was criticised for inviting “authoritarian despot” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to Scotland, his Westminster economy spokesperson Drew Hendry has called out the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) for its links to some of the world’s other human rights abusers in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer.

Expressing his “deep concern” over the TBI links and the “unclear nature” of some of its funding sources, Mr Hendry challenged the Labour leader  — who called for the “need to clean up politics” earlier this month — to “lead by example on this front and make a public commitment to sever all links between the Labour Party and the TBI.”