SCOTTISH Labour leader Jim Murphy claimed yesterday that only his party was “big enough to kick out David Cameron” as he formally launched the party’s general election campaign.
Speaking at a Glasgow foodbank, Mr Murphy said Labour would abolish the bedroom tax, benefit sanction targets and zero-hours contracts while raising the minimum wage, extending the living wage and ending the need for foodbanks.
The East Renfrewshire MP said voters had a choice between “another five years of Tory cuts and austerity, which hurt the poorest in our community the most, or a Labour government which stands up for working-class people.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’


