Labour’s candidate for Aberdeen South has been caught on camera telling a voter his party wanted the Tories to win the seat in 2019.
The footage, published in the Press and Journal, shows Tauqeer Malik telling a voter that the party “did not bother at all” in 2019 so the Tories would win.
Labour trailed in fourth that year, behind the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
In the exchange, Mr Malik tells the voter, who says he is backing Conservatives in the election, that Labour is now the best bet to beat the SNP this time.
Responding to the video, Mr Malik released a statement saying: "This election is about the need for change, from two governments that have put their own interests before the citizens of Aberdeen South.
“My focus in the last week of the campaign is about the future not the past."