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Jim Murphy insists Labour will make life fairer for working class

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy.
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy.

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy will today claim that the public needed a government working for them not the prospect of a second independence referendum.

He is expected to promise that a Labour Government would work every single day to make life fairer for working class Scots.

Mr Murphy fears the SNP would use a good result in the election next week to push for another referendum.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly said the general election was about strengthening Scotland’s voice at Westminster, not independence.

But Mr Murphy pointed out she had refused to rule out including another referendum in the SNP’s manifesto for the 2016 Holyrood elections, despite previously claiming the vote was a once-in-a-generation event.

He will say: “The next Labour government will work flat out every single day to make life fairer for working class Scots – that’s what will guide us in everything we do.

“The SNP want to spend all their time and energy working for another divisive and time consuming referendum.

“No pensioner living in poverty will be helped by another referendum.

“No family will see their wages go further with another vote on independence.”

Mr Murphy will claim Labour would transform Scotland and the whole of the UK, by abolishing exploitative zero hours contracts and increasing the minimum wage to at least £8 an hour.

“The way to get a Labour government that won’t seek to divide Scotland with another referendum is to vote for Labour,” he will say.

“A vote for anyone other than Labour risks the Tories being the largest party across the UK and David Cameron walking back into Downing Street.”