{"id":86269,"date":"2026-02-26T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/sarwar-gambles-on-break-with-starmer-as-holyrood-race-tightens\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:00:22","slug":"sarwar-gambles-on-break-with-starmer-as-holyrood-race-tightens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/sarwar-gambles-on-break-with-starmer-as-holyrood-race-tightens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarwar gambles on break with Starmer as Holyrood race tightens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c0a5afa1b2df6c10ae13e1c24f12697b986f95d8\/498_0_4560_3648\/master\/4560.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=2aa327e487da4d28cf3d6827577fafa0\" alt=\"Sarwar gambles on break with Starmer as Holyrood race tightens\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Sarwar gambles on break with Starmer as Holyrood race tightens<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Scottish Labour leader hopes distancing himself from PM will shift focus to SNP\u2019s record, but voters remain unconvincedUK politics live \u2013 latest updates\u201cPeople look at Holyrood and think: \u2018Lets give them all a bloody nose\u2019,\u201d says Alex, a betting shop manager. Speaking in a focus group of people who voted Labour at the 2024 general election, Alex captured the downbeat mood of a cohort bitterly disappointed with the Labour government\u2019s early performance, frustrated by the record of the Scottish National party and wearied by what they described as \u201cscandal after scandal\u201d polluting public life.Organised by the public opinion researchers More in Common, the discussion took place last week in Glasgow\u2019s southside, where the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, grew up and still lives with his family. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/feb\/26\/anas-sarwar-keir-starmer-holyrood-snp-voters-scottish-labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Sarwar gambles on break with Starmer as Holyrood race tightens Scottish Labour leader hopes distancing himself from PM will shift focus to SNP\u2019s record, but voters remain unconvincedUK politics live \u2013 latest updates\u201cPeople look at Holyrood and think: \u2018Lets give them all a bloody nose\u2019,\u201d says Alex, a betting shop manager. Speaking in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":86270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}