The election campaign in Scotland has been unsavoury – but it has taken its worst turn yet with the news that a Labour candidate has received a death threat.

Glasgow Central candidate Anas Sarwar – a Shadow DFID Minister and a key part of the pro-union campaign last year as Scottish Labour’s then Deputy Leader – received the threat by voicemail earlier this month. The message (which you can hear over at the Daily Record), says:

“You dirty f*****g scummy b*****d. I hope you f*****g rot in hell because I’ll come down with a f*****g bullet and put it in you. You f*****g …. you sell your soul for a bit of money. You cowardly b*****d.”

The matter is now being handled by the police. This is how Scottish Labour Deputy Leader Kezia Dugdale reacted to the news:

”These types of threats have no place in our society. No-one, politician or otherwise, should have to face threats of violence.