Who is Anas Sarwar?
BBCAnas Sarwar: The basics
Age: 43
Education: Hutchesons' Grammar School then Glasgow University, where he studied dentistry.
Family: Anas Sarwar and his wife Furheen have three children. He is the son of the UK's first Muslim MP, Mohammad Sarwar.
Who is he?
Politics is in Anas Sarwar's blood.
He is the son of millionaire businessman Mohammad Sarwar, who was also the UK's first Muslim MP and has served as governor of the Punjab.
Anas Sarwar was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School - a private school on the south side of Glasgow - then attended Glasgow University, where he studied dentistry.
After five years working as a dentist in Paisley, Sarwar was elected to Westminster.
What was his route to power?
Anas Sarwar joined the Scottish Labour party at the age of 16.
He took over his father's seat - Glasgow Central - in 2010.
He held the seat until the 2015 election, when the SNP won all but three seats in Scotland.
Anas Sarwar then turned his attention to Holyrood and was elected a list MSP for Glasgow in 2016.
The following year, he ran for Scottish Labour leader. He was firmly in the New Labour camp, while his opponent - Richard Leonard - was seen as an ally of Jeremy Corbyn. Leonard won.
But the next time the top job came up - in 2021, less than three months before the Holyrood election - Sarwar won.
He became the first non-white leader of a major political party in the UK.
What are his key pledges?
- Fix the NHS by cutting waiting lists and bringing back family doctors
- Bring high streets back to life
- Ban phones in classrooms, raise standards in reading and numeracy and deliver 9,000 new apprenticeships
- Put police back on the streets with a named community and crime prevention police officer in every council ward
- Build 125,000 new homes
- Fix almost five million potholes
