Scottish Labour launch referendum campaign

Tomorrow evening Labour will launch their campaign to keep Scotland strong in the UK.

The launch will take place at the Fruitmarket in Glasgow and will be fronted by leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Johann Lamont. Scottish Labour MPs Gordon Brown, Anas Sarwar, and Gordon Matheson and an audience of Labour supporters and undecided voters will join her.

Johann and Gordon will also hold a press conference in the morning. 

Speaking ahead of the launch, Lamont has laid out what she sees as the case for Scotland remaining in the UK:

“In just over 100 days, the people of this country will come together to decide our future and we believe it is in Scotland’s interests to continue working in partnership with our neighbours.

Scotland is already a nation with a strong parliament which has power over the things that really matter to people like schools, hospitals and jobs.

But we believe it makes sense to share other things as part of a bigger country of 60 million rather than just five, giving us the economic certainty and security we would want.

With so many people coming to our rally to hear Labour’s message on the referendum, it shows that people are interested in this debate and many share Labour’s view of the sharing union.

We will make our arguments and fight for every vote until September 18^th because we believe Scotland’s best future is part of the UK.”