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12 on Wednesday the 7th of February. I'm David Wallace Locker and it's time for another one of our

interview episodes joining me today in our tiny Scottish Parliament studio off the back of Scottish

Labour conference. The weekend before last is the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sauru. Anis, thanks

for joining us. My pleasure, David. So let's jump straight into it. We normally start with a bit of

background in these interviews. Let's talk upbringing. And I'm assuming yours was quite a political one,

because of course your father was the UK's first Muslim MP. He was the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central.

So what was that like growing up in that environment?

Look, politics has always been in my household.

My dad was a counsellor in the mid-1990s,

stood for selection as a Labour Party candidate in 95-96,

obviously won the election in 1997. And so since I was

probably 10 and 11 years old, politics has been a feature of conversation in our house. And I've also

been used as some of that fodder to go and deliver the leaflets and chat the doors and make some

phone calls. So it used to political conversations.

But in a really weird kind of way,

you know, people often think about my dad being involved in politics

and somehow that was one of the main drivers of me going into politics.

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