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Scottish Parliament to get 'crucial' new powers under Labour

ED Miliband pledged yesterday to hand “crucial” new powers to the Scottish Parliament if he is elected prime minister next year.

On a visit to Dundee's Michelin tyre plant the Labour leader announced a new “contract” with the people of Scotland — five key pledges that he vowed his party would deliver in its first batch of legislation.

He said: “We can have the best of both worlds, which is a Scottish Parliament, and the strength and security and social justice that the United Kingdom can bring, if we can elect a Labour government which is what I’m determined to do.”

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