LABOUR and Green MSPs have united to urge the SNP Scottish government to go “much further” on land reform.

The calls came as MSPs prepared to debate the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill, which would enable ministers to intervene to break up large estates as they come up for sale.

Warning the Bill could be a missed opportunity, Scottish Labour land reform spokeswoman Rhoda Grant said: “After 17 years of SNP government, land ownership concentration is getting worse: 0.025 per cent of Scotland’s population still owns 67 per cent of [its] rural land.