A VOTE for Scottish Labour will “give back hope and opportunity” to young people, Anas Sarwar said today as he launched his party’s manifesto in Edinburgh.

The 135-page paper not only sets out Scottish Labour’s pitch to win around voters in July, but sets out the stall for the 2026 Holyrood election, where the party hopes to recover from its record low in 2021.

Manifesto promises include a pay rise for over 200,000 workers when Labour adopts the real living wage, including for 40,000 young workers, and eliminates what it calls “discriminatory” age bands introduced with the national living wage by the Blair government.