Angela Rayner has claimed Scots are being let down by the UK and Scottish Governments over the price of residing disaster.
The Labour occasion deputy chief spoke out as she visited an employee-owned nursery in Edinburgh at present.
Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, mentioned Scots had been being failed by "two governments lacking in motion". She was joined on the go to to the nursery by Scottish Labour chief Anas Sarwar.
Rayner mentioned: "Folks in Scotland are being failed by two governments lacking in motion. The Tories are preventing amongst themselves whereas the SNP are obsessive about constitutional grievance – and each are failing to indicate up throughout a value of residing disaster.
"The SNP wish to speak the speak of being a left wing occasion - however identical to the Tories they're extra thinking about division than options.
"Time and time once more, from childcare to social safety, the SNP promise the world however don’t ship, leaving folks to pay the payments.
"We want a recent begin and a brand new authorities in Westminster – however solely Labour can ship that."
Rayner final night time used an look at an Edinburgh Fringe speak present to assert her occasion wouldn't do a take care of the SNP following the following common election.
"It’s not a chance that we might work with the SNP – we wish to win a majority,” she mentioned.
Rayner added: “I don’t suppose the folks of Scotland ought to depart behind the folks of Ashton-under-Lyne, both.
"The poverty that we face is the poverty they face and we each want a Labour authorities with a purpose to make the adjustments that we have to make, whether or not that’s in Scotland or in England.”
When requested in regards to the probability of successful seats north of the border within the subsequent election, Rayner mentioned the occasion was “making progress” in Scotland.
SNP MSP Paul McLennan mentioned: "That is but extra proof of precisely why Labour has completely zero credibility in Scotland, as they proceed to disregard the truth of what's going on in Scotland - whether or not it's disregarding the very important help the SNP is offering to households being let down by Westminster or standing in the way in which of the forged iron mandate for a referendum the folks of Scotland gave the Scottish Authorities final Could.
"Till Labour cease mimicking the Toriess - from backing Brexit and defending Westminster’s erosion of devolution to serving to the Tories into energy in our councils and endorsing poisonous Westminster cuts - they stand no hope of regaining the belief of the folks of Scotland."
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