The Scottish Labour leader will use a speech in Liverpool to attack a Nationalist government at Holyrood he claims has ran out of ideas.

Scotland is being “held back” by an SNP government that is failing Scots as the country cries out for change, Anas Sarwar will tell the Labour party conference. The Scottish Labour leader will say that Scotland is a country of “enormous potential and is brimming with talent”, but that it needs fresh leadership and new ideas.

Scotland needs to get rid of a second “incompetent government” and oust the SNP from power, Anas Sarwar is to argue.