Anas Sarwar delivers speech at Labour conference in Liverpool

The Scottish Labour leader is speaking after his party won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.

Anas Sarwar has delivered his speech at Labour’s conference in Liverpool.

The Scottish Labour leader is speaking after his party won a huge victory at the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.

The party doubled its Scottish MPs from one to two on Friday after Michael Shanks beat the SNP’s Katy Loudon to become the constituency’s new MP.

Speaking before Sarwar Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray said “no SNP seat is safe from Labour”.

Earlier on Monday shadow UK chancellor Rachel Reeves told Labour members the party is “ready to rebuild Britain” and restore economic security after the “chaos” of the Tory years.

The shadow chancellor delivered her pitch to the nation at what is likely to be the last major Labour conference before a general election.

In her speech, Reeves told activists in Liverpool that Labour would pull the economy out of the “wreckage of Tory misrule” with a “vision to rebuild Britain”.

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