Anas Sarwar has insisted he is going nowhere and will stay on as Scottish Labour leader despite the party's worst ever Holyrood election results.
Scottish Labour won just 17 out of 129 seats, a drop of four, to tie for second place with Reform UK.
The SNP were comfortably the largest party with 58 seats but fell short of an overall majority.
In the wake of the results, Sarwar dismissed talk of resigning as leader, saying he will "absolutely" stay on.
He told the BBC his "responsibility now is to hold my party together," and vowed to hold "the newly elected SNP government to account on their record".
He said he would he would "make sure we have a parliament and a democracy that functions in Scotland".
Asked if he expected to lead Scottish Labour into the next election, Sarwar said: "I've got a job to do and I intend to do it."