You can get The National's Real Scottish Politics newsletter free and direct to your inbox every weekday. Yet Anas Sarwar proclaimed at the weekend that the hardest job in British politics – and “for many reasons the hardest job in the world" – is being the leader of Scottish Labour. Doubt cast on 'independent' Scottish LabourCould you imagine Nicola Sturgeon saying this after hosting daily Covid press conferences for months? Or any prime minister or cabinet minister in fact, when they have to make decisions with major consequences daily? You can get The National's Real Scottish Politics newsletter free and direct to your inbox every weekday.