SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has slammed Labour leadership contenders for playing “celebrity traitors” while the cost-of-living crisis bites.

After a succession of scandals and flatlining polls, the Prime Minister is expected to come under intense pressure to resign should the expected drubbing at the Welsh Senedd, Scottish Parliament, and English council elections come to pass on Thursday.

As rivals such as Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting jockey for position, the Aberdeen South MP branded the political infighting “unforgivable.”

Mr Flynn said: “At a time when families are under real pressure, it is unforgivable that the Labour Party government is doing nothing to help and is, instead, completely distracted by political infighting.

“Voters will punish the Labour Party for imposing chaos, and squabbling over who gets to be the next party leader, instead of helping families with the cost-of-living emergency.

“Voters were promised change but Keir Starmer has only delivered chaos and Brexit Britain is more broken than ever before.

“Under the Labour Party, energy bills are £400 higher than promised, food and fuel prices are through the roof, unemployment is at a five-year high and families are struggling to get by.”

Arguing the SNP Scottish government was “laser-focused on helping families with the strongest cost-of-living support anywhere in the UK”, he continued: “The Labour Party is only focused on itself and its bitter civil war.

The man widely tipped as a future First Minister should he succeed in his bid for the Holyrood seat of Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine on Thursday added: “People aren’t interested in Wes Streeting or Angela Rayner’s latest auditions for Labour Party Celebrity Traitors — they want a government that is fully focused on helping families with sky-high bills.”