Labour has branded the SNP as "completely out of touch with Scotland's priorities" as Nationalists gather in Dundee today for an independence convention.
Humza Yousaf is expected to tell party members it is their "duty to give people hope and imagine a better future".
But Labour claim the Nationalists are being "distracted by their constitutional obsession".
Jackie Baillie, the party's deputy leader, said: "As Scots struggle with the consequences of the SNP’s disastrous incompetence in government, they are busy talking to themselves about themselves.
"In the last week alone we’ve seen Circularity Scotland collapse, mortgage costs spiral, and key targets being missed – but all of that comes second for Humza Yousaf and his government.
"They are completely out of touch with Scotland’s priorities and distracted by their constitutional obsession.
"While the SNP is busy looking inwards, Labour is ready to boot the Tories out of Downing Street and deliver the change Scotland really needs."
Yousaf will tell party members in Dundee that Westminster’s cost of living crisis is evidence why Scotland urgently needs “transformational change” through independence.
He is expected to say: “We all know Scotland faces many challenges, and we know that we live in an uncertain world.
"But as Scotland’s national party, it is our duty - in these tough times - to give people hope and imagine a better future with the endless opportunities that independence gives us.
"We must inspire people – and make it abundantly clear: the failed Westminster economic model, that is causing such misery, is not as good as it gets.
"The whole point of independence is to make transformational change by taking power into our own hands. And that’s what you get with independence.
"You get the powers to build an economy that puts the health and the happiness of its citizens at its heart - not an economy based on failed trickle-down economics taking us all on a downward spiral.
"You get to be inside the EU and the world’s biggest single market - not being dragged out of Europe against our will.
“You get the powers to create a written constitution. A constitution that guarantees we are a country which respects the rights of every citizen - not a country where populist politicians strip people of their rights on a whim.
"A country which opens its heart and offers sanctuary to those fleeing conflict - not one which bundles them onto planes to Rwanda.
"Independence is about having and using the powers to build a better country. A better Scotland is possible.”
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