Anas Sarwar takes Holyrood seat after eviction from Westminster

Anas Sarwar has returned to elected politics a year after losing his seat at Westminster, becoming a new Labour MSP for the Glasgow region.

The 33-year-old former dentist had followed in the footsteps of his father Mohammad Sarwar, the UK's first Muslim MP, when he won the Glasgow Central constituency in the 2010 general election.

But after five years at the House of Commons, where he served on the International Development Select Committee, he lost the seat to the SNP.

Mr Sarwar has been a member of the Labour Party since he was 16 and was the number one candidate on the regional list for Glasgow in the 2007 Holyrood election, but failed to get elected that time.

When Johann Lamont was elected leader of the Labour Party in December 2011, Mr Sarwar was voted in as her deputy, winning more than half the votes.

As part of that role, the Glasgow University graduate headed up Scottish Labour's campaign to keep Scotland in the UK, United with Labour.

After Ms Lamont quit as leader in the wake of the 2014 referendum, Mr Sarwar took on the role of acting leader of the party.

But at the Labour Party gala dinner in October that year, he announced he too would be standing down, to allow party members to elect a new leadership team.

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