Commenting on Harriet Harman’s attack on Danny Alexander’s natural hair colour and her lack of awareness that Scotland probably has the highest proportion of redheads in the world SNP MSP Shirley-Anne Somerville said:
 
"Labour don't have a Scottish heart anymore, and clearly they don't have a Scottish head either. Her silly remark isn't anti-Danny or anti-LibDem, it's anti-Scottish. It's a gaffe that is overshadowing what Iain Gray thinks should be his big day.
 
“Coming from the doyenne of po-faced political correctness these remarks show she and Labour have lost the plot since losing the election. I wonder if she will be apologising since she often demands apologies from so many others.
 
“There’s a mountain of issues people can criticise Danny Alexander for but childish abuse about his appearance reveals Labour have little to say about the real issues of Westminster cuts which they are equally responsible for and which they have admitted will be little different.”