LABOUR: Scottish Labour will prioritise cancer services to offer “world-class” care rather than focusing on a divisive independence referendum, Anas Sarwar has said.

The party leader has warned that up to 7,000 people may have cancer but be unaware of it because of a diagnosis backlog caused when services were suspended earlier in the pandemic.

Mr Sarwar has accused Nicola Sturgeon of underfunding the NHS and said that the “distracted” SNP leader had “taken her eye off the ball” on cancer services.