SCOTTISH Labour made just £250 in fundraising in a full year under Richard Leonard's leadership, it has emerged.
Anas Sarwar has slammed the party's performance under his predecessor.
Leonard, an ex-union official, stood down with immediate effect in January, just four months before the Scottish Parliament election.
The move came three years after he succeeded Kezia Dugdale and members voted Anas Sarwar into the role in February this year. He secured 57% of the vote to defeat rival Monica Lennon.
Now he's spoken about the "really, really poor" position of the party's fundraising operations as the figures emerged.
The Daily Mail reports that just £250 was made through "fundraising and business events" in 2019.
That's the last full year for which the party's figures are available and left Scottish Labour bosses forced to draw up an emergency plan.
Sarwar said he had to take urgent action to avoid a financial disaster in the run-up to this year's Holyrood vote.
At the Labour Party conference in Brighton, the Glasgow MSP said he "inherited something really, really poor" from Leonard "in terms of the financial package and the situation".
Sarwar said: "The Labour Party in Scotland had no meaningful fundraising operation in place and its fundraising figures were so woeful I don't even think they are worthy of comment."
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