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General election 2019: Corbyn pledges 'massive' Scottish investment General election 2019: Corbyn says no indyref2 in 'first term'
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Jeremy Corbyn will visit Scotland on Wednesday with a pledge to deliver "massive investment" if he becomes prime minister. A Labour government would not back a second Scottish independence vote during its "first term" in power, leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.
The Labour leader said the general election on 12 December would be "a once-in-generation chance to transform Scotland and the whole UK". Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a new referendum in 2020.
Mr Corbyn will set out his plans during a two-day visit to key Scottish seats. She has said her SNP MPs would only consider putting Mr Corbyn in Downing Street in a hung parliament if he accepts the "principle" of such a vote.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a Labour-SNP coalition would "ruin 2020" with two referendums. But Mr Corbyn said this would not take place in his first five-year term, when his focus would be on "investment".
Meanwhile, the SNP insisted it was the only party that could beat the Tories and "lock Boris Johnson out of Downing Street". Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a Labour-SNP alliance would "ruin 2020" with two referendums.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats will focus their day's campaigning on a pledge to invest in nurseries and provide free childcare for children from nine months old. The Labour leader was speaking in Glasgow at the beginning of a two-day campaign visit to Scotland which will conclude with a rally in Edinburgh on Thursday.
Ahead of his visit, Mr Corbyn said: "A UK Labour government will provide the massive investment Scotland deserves. Ms Sturgeon has said the SNP could back a Labour minority government in the event of a hung parliament on an "issue by issue basis".
"We will build the homes people need and end homelessness, tackle the climate emergency, provide a social care system that gives dignity to our older people and the carers who look after them, end child poverty and end fuel poverty. However, she has insisted that Mr Corbyn should not "pick up the phone" to ask for SNP votes unless he is ready to accept the "principle" of a second independence referendum, as well as ending austerity and offering further powers to Holyrood.
"The SNP and the Tories have neither the ideas or the will to transform Scotland for the better, so are hiding from their records in government. Labour has previously indicated that it would not actively block an independence vote, but would not make it an immediate priority when in power.
"This is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform Scotland and the whole UK. When Labour wins, Scotland wins." Mr Corbyn told journalists in Glasgow that there would be "no referendum in the first term of a Labour government, because I think we need to concentrate completely on investment in Scotland".
It has previously been suggested that Labour would not oppose a referendum if the SNP won a majority in the Holyrood elections in 2021.
A party source said they would absolutely rule out a poll in 2020, and repeated Mr Corbyn's claim that Labour would win the 2021 Scottish election.
The Labour leader said his party would "provide the massive investment Scotland deserves", saying the general election was a "very simple" choice between the Conservatives or Labour being in charge.
He said: "I believe the people of this country deserve better than Boris Johnson and his government, and the country would be better off with a Labour government."
'Main challenger'
Ms Sturgeon later told the BBC that Mr Corbyn was "weak" on many issues, and said Labour were not competitive in many Scottish constituencies.
She said: "The key thing in this election is the only party that can beat the Tories in Scotland is the SNP.
"We are the main challenger in every Tory-held seat. A vote for Labour risks letting in the Tories."
The SNP leader said her MPs would stand up to the Conservatives as well as keeping a potential Labour UK government "on the right track".
Labour 'squeezed in the middle in Scotland'
Analysis by Sarah Smith, Scotland Editor
When Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader, the party hoped he'd make the SNP look like moderate centrists and he would win back left wing voters to the red corner. But that project has had only limited success.
Most of their voters have been lost to the SNP. And many of those who still vote Labour in Westminster elections are sympathetic to the idea of Scottish independence - or at least to having another referendum to allow Scotland to decide.
So you'd think the Labour Party's flirtation with the idea of allowing a second vote on independence would be welcome. But instead it appears to have thrown confusion into the debate.
While the SNP are ferociously in favour of independence, and the Tories (and Lib Dems) implacably opposed, Labour seem lost in the middle. Squeezed out of the biggest debate in Scotland.
Read more from Sarah here
Prior to the campaign event, Mr Corbyn was heckled by a Church of Scotland minister who branded him a "terrorist sympathiser".
As Mr Corbyn was telling reporters about a scarf given to him by a charity group, Richard Cameron, the minister at the local Scotstoun Parish Church, shouted that he thought the Labour leader would be wearing an "Islamic jihad scarf".
He added: "Who's going to be the first terrorist invited to the House of Commons when you're prime minister?"
A spokeswoman for the Church of Scotland rebuked Mr Cameron, saying: "Whilst we may occasionally robustly challenge policy issues with which we disagree, we always intend to do that in a way that is polite and measured and allows for reasoned debate."
The Conservatives and the Lib Dems have both positioned themselves in opposition to a second independence referendum.
Speaking at an electric vehicle manufacturer in the West Midlands later, Boris Johnson will say everyone in the UK faces "a historic choice" on 12 December.Speaking at an electric vehicle manufacturer in the West Midlands later, Boris Johnson will say everyone in the UK faces "a historic choice" on 12 December.
The PM will say: "At this election, the country can either move forwards with policies that will deliver years of growth and prosperity, or it can disappear into an intellectual cul-de-sac of far-left Corbynism.The PM will say: "At this election, the country can either move forwards with policies that will deliver years of growth and prosperity, or it can disappear into an intellectual cul-de-sac of far-left Corbynism.
"We can honour the wishes of the people, or else we can waste more time, at the cost of a billion pounds per month, and have two more referendums, one on Scotland and one on the EU - an expense of spirit and a waste of shame, more political self-obsession and onanism.""We can honour the wishes of the people, or else we can waste more time, at the cost of a billion pounds per month, and have two more referendums, one on Scotland and one on the EU - an expense of spirit and a waste of shame, more political self-obsession and onanism."
'Nothing positive' Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie, meanwhile, said his party "will never support another independence referendum".
He will add: "This is why I urge everybody undecided how to vote - imagine waking up on Friday 13th December after the election to find the Corbyn-Sturgeon coalition in Downing Street." Speaking at a nursery in Dunfermline while promoting his party's childcare policy, he said: "It's really important we move on, we learn the lessons from Brexit rather than trying to repeat them with independence.
The SNP's Glasgow East candidate David Linden said Labour "have nothing positive to offer Scotland" and that a vote for them in some seats "would only help the Tories". "Let's try to tackle things like childcare expansion, let's tackle the climate emergency, deal with mental health service problems that we've got in this country. We've had enough of the division and damage over the constitution."
He added: "Jeremy Corbyn's failure to properly oppose Brexit is set to hit them hard in Scotland, where the remain vote has only strengthened since 2016. And nothing he says or does on his visit to Scotland can mask that failure.
"Only a vote for the SNP is a vote to escape Brexit and to put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands - not Boris Johnson's - by giving the country the choice of a better future with independence."
Scottish Lib-Dem leader Willie Rennie will visit a nursery in Dunfermline to promote his party's new childcare policy.
Mr Rennie will announce plans to provide money for free childcare for children from nine months old and invest in Scottish schools and nurseries.