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"A vote for the SNP in this election is a vote to stand up for older people across Scotland, for fair pensions, and to stop a Tory betrayal in its tracks." Meanwhile, Scottish

Labour leader Kezia Dugdale will attack the SNP and Tories on the election campaign trail. In a speech to the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Aviemore, Miss Dugdale is expected to say:

"The Government's handling of Brexit has shown us the risks they're willing to take with our country's economy. "Threatening to walk away from the EU without a deal

is no better than Nicola Sturgeon's threat to walk away from the UK with independence. "Both would lead to job losses and even more austerity than we're already facing.

"And the UK Government's refusal to take EU nationals off the table as bargaining chips is just another example of its lack of compassion. "That's why I'm proud that

Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, made absolutely clear that we would unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU migrants on day one of a Labour government. "Because it

is the right thing to do. "These are people who have chosen to come to the UK, to make their lives here, to raise families and contribute to our economy here. "We shouldn't

then make them bargaining chips in our negotiations with the EU. "Ruth Davidson must now commit the Tories to providing the same guarantee in her party's manifesto. "After her

defence of the abhorrent rape clause, anything else would add to the growing evidence that she isn't a different kind of Tory after all."