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Anas Sarwar has said a random “act of kindness” by a stranger in Lossiemouth was key to him rising to the top of Scottish politics .

He said his family would not have settled in Scotland unless a woman had given his grandfather shelter in the Moray town over eighty years ago .

Sarwar has led Scottish Labour since 2021 and is in a two-way fight with John Swinney to be First Minister after the Holyrood election .

The MSP is Glasgow born and bred, but he told the Record Lossiemouth is the place that shaped his family.

He said his Muslim grandad Ghulam Mohammed arrived in England in the 1940s by boat from Pakistan with the aim of earning money and returning to his homeland.

He travelled to Lossiemouth - where Labour’s first prime minister Ramsay MacDonald was born - with t

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