THE SNP has called for Anas Sarwar to “come clean” on why a senior Scottish Labour council candidate held a meeting with Tories and “ultra-Unionist” campaigners.
As revealed by The National, Glasgow’s Labour group leader Malcolm Cunning and the Tories’ deputy leader in the city Euan Blockley were pictured at an event hosted by The Majority, a group which has called on the UK Government to “ban secession”.
Responding to a question about the session on Twitter, member of The Majority David Griffiths said the group reached “agreement on key issues” and engaged in “stimulating debate”.
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SNP MSP Bob Doris has now urged Scottish Labour leader Sarwar to “immediately come clean” on the discussions with the group, which he said has been described by the media as “British nationalist” and “anti-democratic”.
He said: “It is clear Labour have not learned from their mistakes of the past and their unholy alliance with the Tories in 2014 as they continue to hold secret meetings with them and British nationalists.
“They must immediately reveal what the ‘key issues’ were they reached agreement on.
“If Labour continue to act as ultra-Unionists, advocating for Westminster control in Scotland and working together with the Tories to deny the people of Scotland their democratic right to hold an independence referendum then they will continue their slide into irrelevance in Scotland.”
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In a blog post from last year, founder of The Majority Mark Devlin called for the UK Government to “ban secession” by cutting their funding.
He penned another which accused pro-Union journalists of being "appeasers" for calling support for Scottish independence "a respectable cause".
Doris added: “We cannot trust that Labour will not form another Unionist pact in councils across Scotland – they have already done it in Aberdeen and North Lanarkshire and could do it again.
“That is why it is only the SNP that can be trusted not to hand the keys of power to the Tories in councils and send a message on May 5 that we have had enough of the scandal-ridden Tory government.”
Labour has been approached for comment.
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