JEREMY CORBYN detailed his opposition yesterday to the council cuts unleashed on the Scottish people by the SNP, insisting that the second independence referendum for which it is campaigning would do nothing to address Scotland’s real problems.

Addressing the Scottish Labour conference, he said that both Tories and SNP talked of taking back powers from Brussels and Westminster, but neither party wants to take on transnational companies and big business.

And the party leader warned people to “never again accept any moralising lectures from the Greens” after they recently helped the SNP pass a budget slashing local government funding by £170 million.