SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar’s calls to leverage Donald Trump’s Scottish roots to “make Scotland greater again” were branded “crass, tone-deaf and stupid” today.

Mr Sarwar made the remarks in a column in the Times newspaper, published as he attended the annual Tartan Day Parade in New York City. 

He has spent a week in the US catching-up with his friend Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador to the US, and joining Britain’s Trade Minister Douglas Alexander on a round of meetings with business leaders.