LABOUR will today reach out to the million Scots who voted to leave the EU in last month's referendum.
In her first major speech since the Brexit vote, leader Kezia Dugdale - who campaigned for a Remain vote - will argue that Scotland witnessed similar divisions to the rest of the UK in the June 23 poll.
Britain voted to leave the EU by 52 per cent to 48 per cent but in Scotland the vote was 62 per cent to 38 per cent in favour of remaining.
The high leave vote in Scotland came in spite of all the main party leaders, including the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, campaigning for Remain.
Ms Dugdale will say Scotland is "not immune" from the sense of anger towards mainstream politics that is believed to have driven the Leave vote in less well-off parts of England and Wales.
She will tell supporters: "Over a million people voted leave, but the public debate we’ve been having since the UK voted leave would make you think that we voted unanimously for remain.
"I don’t agree with the arguments made by leave campaigners.
"But I can no more ignore the concerns of people who voted Leave than I would ignore the concerns of someone who voted Yes."
She will highlight big Leave votes in poorer communities - such as the east end of Glasgow, where 44 per cent backed Brexit - which also voted Yes to independence in 2014.
She will add: "Politicians of every party in Scotland need to face up to the fact that we are not immune to the deep divisions that made people vote leave in England and Wales.
"It’s a wake up call to us in the Labour Party too.
"We need to ask ourselves why people in the very communities we seek to represent weren’t convinced by our argument both at the independence referendum and at the EU referendum."
"We need to understand why they felt the gamble of independence or the gamble of leaving the EU was a better prospect than fighting for change within the system we have."
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