Anas Sarwar has cut back on the coffee. I’m told the Scottish Labour leader had developed an expensive Starbucks habit, but is now limiting himself to two cups a day. His hard-working aides reflect, somewhat ruefully, that there has been no consequent reduction in his prodigious energy levels.
That’s probably for the best because Sarwar has, as he said this week, “a mountain to climb”. Labour, which six months ago appeared on course for victory in the next Holyrood election, once again finds itself in the all too familiar position of trailing the SNP in the polls. As the psephologist John Curtice put it, support for the party seems to have “imploded”.
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