We have the opportunity to make Scotland the fairest country on earth if we elect a Labour Government just 20 days from now.
Today, in the East End of Glasgow, I will launch Scottish Labour's manifesto for the General Election. Over the past five years, it is working people who have paid the greatest price for a Tory Government.
People are £1,600 a year worse off, wages have fallen, and it seems that the only growth industries in our economy are food banks and payday lenders.
At the same time, the Tories are boasting about a recovery. But eight out of 10 new jobs in Scotland are in low-paid industries and the number of zero-hours contracts continues to increase.
This increase in low-wage, insecure jobs means that people are working longer and harder for less.
There has never been a more important time to stand up for that core working-class value that an honest day's work should be rewarded with a decent wage.
And that is what our manifesto does. It starts from a simple truth: Scotland only succeeds when working people succeed.
At its heart are solutions to the two biggest issues I've heard from people during this campaign: making work pay for working-class Scots and saving the NHS from the crisis that has emerged on the SNP's watch.
I believe in a Scotland where working-class families have the security of knowing that they have regular hours that will pay a decent wage.
Our manifesto will commit us to ending exploitative zero-hours contracts and making sure that people who work regular hours have a legal right to a regular contract after twelve weeks.
I believe that the minimum wage hasn't been rising fast enough, and has meant that people on low incomes have been struggling. That's why our manifesto will commit us to increasing the minimum wage to more than £8 an hour, more than double the rate of growth under the Tories.
And I believe that it should be those with the broadest shoulders who bear the burden of deficit reduction.
We will make fair choices on tax and reintroduce the 50p tax rate for people earning more than £150,000.
These are changes that will make sure our country works for working people again. But it doesn't end there.
People across Scotland are worried about the NHS. The SNP have missed their own accident and emergency waiting time targets in each of the last 288 weeks.
That is why the health service is central to our offer to the Scottish people at this election.
On Monday, Ed Miliband committed us to a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2 million.
Together with other changes the next Labour Government will make, this means a £1 billion bonus for Scotland's NHS. We have already said we would spend some of this money on 1,000 more nurses. But we will go further.
Today we will announce a £200m Mental Health Fund and a £200m Cancer Fund to combat two of the greatest scourges of Scotland's health.
Our Cancer Fund will help thousands of people going through the most distressing and worrying times of their lives by ensuring that everyone diagnosed with cancer has access to the best treatments and drugs.
It will also help us cut cancer waiting times so that we can have the best cancer survival rates in Europe.
When one in four Scots experience mental health problems at some point in their lives, we need to have a far greater focus on these issues.
So we will direct resources from our Mental Health Fund to support child mental health and focus on prevention and early intervention.
These are the changes we offer just 20 days from now. It is a Labour plan that can only be delivered by a Labour government.
But what is increasingly clear is that Scotland can unlock change with a Labour government or block change in May. Today's manifesto is our promise to create the fairest nation on earth. I want you to vote Labour to make it a reality.
Jim Murphy is leader of the Scottish Labour Party.
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