Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale will today accuse the Scottish Government of squandering the first 100 days since it was re-elected.
Ms Dugdale will also urge on First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to focus on “bread and butter issues” as she sets out Labour’s alternative legislative programme.
Her call comes as she attempts to focus attention away from Labour’s leadership contest and the fierce row engulfing the party in Westminster.
Every Bill in Labour’s programme could be adopted by the SNP, Ms Dugdale will say, including plans to ban fracking, close the gap between the richest and poorest children in Scottish schools and regulate bus services.
Opposition parties have accused the SNP of failing to deliver over the last four months.
The party made a huge play of its achievements during the first 100 days of Alex Salmond’s first term as First Minister.
Since the SNP was elected again in May, however, there has been a fraught EU referendum campaign and the fallout from the Brexit result.
Ms Dugdale will say: "One hundred and nineteen days ago, the SNP was elected again as Scotland’s Government for a third term and Nicola Sturgeon was given a personal mandate by the Scottish people to serve as Scotland’s First Minister.
"We were promised a bold and radical programme for Government, but one hundred and nineteen days on we are still waiting to see the Government’s plans.”
She said that instead of 100 days of action on schools, hospitals, jobs and the economy, “a constitutional debate which formed only 209 of 24,115 words in the SNP’s manifesto has dominated again."
An SNP spokesman said: "Labour have already presented their alternative programme for government in May's Holyrood election– where it was roundly rejected by voters and they slumped to a humiliating third place in Scottish politics.
"Meanwhile the SNP is getting on with governing for a historic third term, prioritising investment in education, record funding for our NHS, £100 million in additional capital spending to grow our economy and a determination to protect Scotland's place in the EU."
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