It comes as his party and the Tories are battling for second place at Holyrood. Darling insisted “voting Conservative with your second vote won’t help stop the SNP”. He said: “Anas Sarwar shares your priorities. Although the Scottish Conservatives insist they are the best-placed party to stop a second independence referendum, Darling claimed “only a vote for Scottish Labour will do that”. Speaking to voters in Tory-held areas, he said: “In your seat, voting Conservative with your second vote won’t help stop the SNP. Only a vote for Scottish Labour will do that. “You may not have voted Labour in the past, or you may have left us in recent years, but under Anas Sarwar’s leadership we have changed.”
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Nicola Sturgeon Labour leader Anas Sarwar highlighted cancer and the need to catch up on undiagnosed cases as a result of the Covid pandemic. Labour said up to an estimated 7,000 people in Scotland are believed to be living with undiagnosed cancer as a result of the pandemic’s impact on services and suspension of screenings. He said over the course of the pandemic, thousands of people have missed out on screenings and many more have had their appointments postponed, delayed or cancelled. Adding there were 100,913 patients on the waiting list at the end of December 2020 and almost half (44.1%) had already waited over the target six weeks.