SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Secretary Ian Murray's department is to receive £150m to spend north of the border in a controversial shake-up.
Labour is set to change the law within months to allow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray to bypass Holyrood and directly fund anti-poverty schemes.
The cash will be targeted at deprived areas with an emphasis on cutting poverty rates, creating jobs and stimulating economic growth. “His focus is on finding ways to directly improving people’s lives in practical ways and these new powers to turbocharge his office combined with a budget will allow him to do that.
“But there are many voters who believe the SNP has squandered billions through rank incompetence and it is no bad thing for someone else to try and do a better job with a relatively small portion of public spending.” The money allocated to Murray will come from funds previously paid to the EU and distributed to member states through European structural funds.
We revealed last week Murray will sit on a taskforce set up by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to tackle child poverty.
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