SCOTTISH Labour’s Katy Clark demanded an emergency rent freeze for all tenants north of the border as she warned that costs were “spiralling out of control” in a new parliamentary motion today.

The Scottish government’s draft strategy consultation paper on a “new deal for tenants,” which closes next Friday, pledges to introduce a system of rent controls by 2025.

However Ms Clark, MSP for West Scotland, stressed that tenants cannot wait that long due to record levels of inflation and rent cost rises.