Anas Sarwar has accused the SNP of hypocrisy for defending the Health Secretary after he was chauffeured to see his team play at Hampden four times.
The Scottish Labour leader said the party wanted to attack Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “day after day” for accepting freebies but “now find themselves in a very similar position”.SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray has been under fire for using a ministerial car to attend several football matches.During his statement to the Parliament on Thursday, Gray admitted he attended six games for free, two of which were to see Scotland and four were to watch Aberdeen.
The Dons fan apologised during his speech for not going to a “wider range” of football matches.He said this gave the impression he was acting “more as a fan and less as a minister”.
Asked about his apology on Friday, the Scottish Labour leader said: “I think the public can see and understand that it’s probably not a mere coincidence.”Sarwar, who was in Maryhill in Glasgow campaigning for his party, claimed the SNP had one standard for themselves and another for everyone else.He said: “I think it exposes the hypocrisy of the SNP who wanted to spend day after day, week after week, attacking the Labour Party for engaging in what they call engagements and making an issue around football tickets, etc, and they now find themselves in a very similar position.