Labour MP stutters on BBC Breakfast as he refuses to answer simple question 3 times
Scottish Labour MP Anas Sarwar continued to ignore the reporter.
BBC Breakfast took an awkward turn after Scottish Labour Leader Anais Sarwar refused to answer a question delivered by host Katie three times. As she questioned Anais on the upcoming May elections, she asked if he would be comfortable relying on the votes from Reform's Malcolm Offord to become First Minister if the SMP were the biggest party. He then hit back with: "The people whose votes I need to become First Minister are the people of this great country, Scotland, and they're the ones I'm trying to persuade."
However, she then asked again: "You could not win this election. Would you be comfortable relying on Reform votes to become First Minister?" He avoided once again and said that he wanted to be clear that he wanted Reform to get "hammered" in this election.
She asked the question once again, as Sarwar said: "The votes that are going to decide the election are the votes of the public. You're asking me to comment on a hypothetical situation. My job isn't to commentate; it's to persuade. I want to persuade people across the country to reject the poison of Reform. I want them to get hammered."
The reporter then said to him: "I can see you're not going to answer that question, we're out of time," as she cut the interview to a close before telling him that they will find out soon how the voters have voted.
Earlier on in the segment, she had asked him for his thoughts on the Prime Minister Keir Starmer after he made calls for the PM to resign two months ago.
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He said: "Look, I stand by what I said, I don't recall it, and in actual fact, the Peter Mandelson scandal was the tipping point for me. The important point to make in this campaign is that a vote for Scottish Labour and me is not an endorsement for Keir Starmer. It's about who the First Minister is."
Sarwar then expressed his plea for people not to pass judgment on the government that has been in power for two years, but instead to think of the government in Scotland that had been in power for 20 years. He added: "If you want change, there's only one route to change on May 7th, and that's to vote for me and Scottish Labour."
