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Kezia Dugdale to tell Labour conference that the party is "changing" Jeremy Corbyn says 'flags don't build houses' in attack on SNP
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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale is to claim that the days of her party "listening and not acting" are over when she addresses its UK conference. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the SNP of saying they are against austerity while pursuing policies which continue it.
Ms Dugdale will pledge to fight next year's Holyrood election with a vision that sets Labour apart from the SNP. Mr Corbyn also told the BBC's Andrew Marr that "flags don't build houses".
Shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray is also to address delegates at the event in Brighton. And he said he would not campaign against Scottish independence alongside David Cameron ahead of any future referendum.
It will be the first conference under new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The SNP has previously said that Mr Corbyn leads a party that is "deeply divided".
And it has predicted that more people will become convinced that independence is the "only alternative to Westminster Tory governments that Scotland didn't vote for" unless Mr Corbyn is able to show he can beat the Conservatives.
Speaking as the annual Labour conference gets under way in Brighton, Mr Corbyn told the Marr Show that the SNP had a "headline" of being opposed to austerity.
'Austerity badge'
But he claimed the party was also "privatising CalMac, also were behind the privatisation of ScotRail, also cutting college places, also privatising services, also cutting local government funding."
He added: "Yes they have an austerity badge, but where is the economic strategy behind it which doesn't either continue the austerity that is happening now, or if they go for fiscal devolution is going to be even worse in Scotland because of the price of oil at the present time?"
Many within Scottish Labour believe it was a mistake for the party to agree to become part of the Better Together campaign alongside the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats ahead of last year's independence referendum.
And Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale announced last week that she would not stop the party's MPs and MSPs campaigning for independence if there was another referendum.
Mr Corbyn said he "will not be standing alongside David Cameron" to oppose independence, but would instead be "standing alongside Kezia Dugdale and the Scottish Labour Party."
He said the Labour's membership numbers had "gone up incredibly" in Scotland both during and since the party's leadership contest.
He added: "If you are poor in Glasgow or you are poor in Birmingham - you are poor. If you need a house in Glasgow or you need a house in London - you need a house, and so there is the class politics issue of it.
"That is the message I am taking when I am campaigning in Scotland just as much as I am campaigning anywhere else. Flags don't build houses".
Mr Corbyn is expected to visit Scotland next week for the first time since becoming Labour leader.
Speaking on Friday, SNP MSP Sandra White said she hoped Mr Corbyn would use the visit to explain "why he voted against the Scottish Parliament controlling National Insurance and why he didn't even turn up to vote for the devolution of Housing Benefit."
'Correct things'
She added: "But he does have the opportunity to correct things by pledging support for the devolution of trade union legislation, ensuring workers in Scotland are not covered by the draconian labour laws proposed by the Tories."
Meanwhile, Ms Dugdale is to claim that the days of her party "listening and not acting" are over when she addresses the Labour conference on Sunday afternoon.
She will also pledge to fight next year's Holyrood election with a vision that sets Labour apart from the SNP.
Ms Dugdale is expected to state that 30,000 people have signed up to campaign for Scottish Labour, which she will say is more than there were in 1997 - the year of Tony Blair's landslide election victory at Westminster.Ms Dugdale is expected to state that 30,000 people have signed up to campaign for Scottish Labour, which she will say is more than there were in 1997 - the year of Tony Blair's landslide election victory at Westminster.
She will say: "I've watched many speeches from former Scottish leaders at this conference.She will say: "I've watched many speeches from former Scottish leaders at this conference.
"And since 2007, they've followed a pattern. They've spoken passionately and forcefully about the problems Scotland faces - and they've pledged to listen to the Scottish people."And since 2007, they've followed a pattern. They've spoken passionately and forcefully about the problems Scotland faces - and they've pledged to listen to the Scottish people.
"I'm not here today to make another pledge to listen to people. I'm here to say: we get the message and we're going to do something about it.""I'm not here today to make another pledge to listen to people. I'm here to say: we get the message and we're going to do something about it."
Ms Dugdale will say that the Labour Party in Scotland, and across the UK, is at the start of a "process of renewal".
She will add: "Under my leadership, the Scottish Labour Party will not just talk about change. We are changing.
"In just seven months we will go to the country with a renewed team, policies for a fairer country and a vision for modern Scotland that will set us apart from the SNP.
"I will change my party so that once again, together, we can change our country."
Mr Murray, Labour's only remaining MP in Scotland after the SNP won 56 of the country's 59 seats in May, will tell delegates that the party will not "lie down" to Prime Minister David Cameron.
He will add: "Let this Tory Government serve as a reminder that every day out of government, every day without the power to change people's lives, every day on the opposition benches, is a day wasted.
"Because as Keir Hardie knew over 100 years ago, the purpose of this party is to govern. If we are not in government, we can't change the lives of the people we stand for - the millions of people across this country that the Tories would rather forget."