DELEGATES at the Scottish Labour conference voted yesterday for a “radical” federal solution to heal deep political and economic rifts in British society following the referendums over Scottish independence and EU membership.

People all over Britain have been feeling “disenfranchised and detached” from the political process, whose powers have been “concentrated in the hands of a few,” said Scottish Labour’s Westminster spokesman Ian Murray.

He said that the Brexit vote had lifted the lid on feelings of alienation and disillusion that were created in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the MPs’ expenses scandal and the Scottish independence campaign.