Ian Murray

Too many people in Scotland don’t have a place to call home. The figures in Edinburgh are horrifying. As of March this year, 3817 households are in temporary accommodation in our city. These are the families and individuals that are living out the housing emergency.

The Labour conference was the first in 15 years as the party of government. I was privileged to give the Scotland report and my message to delegates was clear – regardless of how well we did in the general election, we must be focused on delivering for Scotland.

At the general election, I stood on a platform that promised people across Scotland, above anything else, that any incoming Labour Government would put the country’s finances first to deliver change.

Next week Holyrood and Westminster return from their summer recess and will immediately face a challenging debate around public spending.

One hundred and eleven. That’s how many people in Edinburgh died due to drugs misuse last year. When I was first elected in 2010 it was 47.

Yesterday the Scottish Government published GERS - Government Expenditure and Revenue, which is essentially Scotland’s balance sheet.

Every household is paying the price for Tory economic incom-petence and will be for some time.

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning to another five years of the Tories. Another five years of Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman. Another five years of economic chaos, backhanders for pals and cuts to vital public services. What a nightmare.

This is the publicly-owned energy company that a UK Labour government will deliver if elected into office in July. It will be transformational for Scotland, as it will be headquartered here. The SNP is all talk and no action when it comes to our nation’s renewable potential, with the Scottish Government consistently failing to deliver. That will fundamentally change with a Labour government at Westminster. First, GB Energy will generate 53,000 new clean energy jobs in Scotland – along with anoth…

Humza Yousaf now believes that anyone earning more than £28,500 in Scotland should pay more income tax – but energy giants recording profits of £33 billion-a-year should pay less tax. These are astonishingly warped priorities from the SNP. Frankly, I’d have been stunned if the right-wing Tories had been this wrongheaded, but this is probably too much even for Rishi Sunak, the highest axing PM on working people in 70 years. If the SNP’s latest position is news to you, I accept it can be hard to k…