Labour will scrap zero-hour contracts if the party wins the next general election, Angela Rayner has said.
The party's deputy leader said the pledge would form part of Labour's 'new deal for working people' if Sir Keir Starmer enters Downing Street after the next general election. She pointed to an increase in the number of zero-hour contracts in Scotland in the past decade, rising from about 46,000 between October and December 2013 to about 94,000 during the same period last year.
Ahead of her address to the STUC conference in Dundee, Ms Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, criticised the UK and Scottish governments over the figures, however, employment law remains a reserved power that cannot be changed by Scottish ministers.
