LABOUR must scrap Trident and use its funding to reinstate the winter fuel payment, scrap the two-child benefit cap and build a “fairer, greener future,” the Scottish Greens urged today.

The party criticised Chancellor Rachel Reeves for launching “a new wave of austerity” by cutting the energy support for all but the poorest pensioners and upholding the cruel two-child benefit cap.

Speaking on the United Nations International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie called for the Westminster government to use the money it is pouring into nuclear weapons to reverse these brutal austerity measures.