SCOTTISH Labour leader Jim Murphy pitched his party’s election manifesto yesterday squarely at “the Scottish working class” with a pledge of £1 billion in NHS spending increases.

Launching his programme in the heart of Glasgow’s East End, Mr Murphy appealed to Labour’s traditional voters across Scotland in a bid to hold back the massive surge of the SNP in the polls.

He said: “The big idea running through our plan is that Scotland succeeds when working-class Scots succeed.