Labour’s Candidate for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West has met with Keir Starmer to discuss the issues recently raised with him by people across the constituency.

McCluskey met with the Labour Leader at the conclusion of Scottish Labour’s annual conference in Glasgow where Starmer made an appeal to people across Scotland to vote Labour at the upcoming General Election.

Martin McCluskey said:

“If I am elected as the MP for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West, I will always take the community’s concerns to the highest possible level. That is what people here deserve.

“This weekend I was pleased to be able to meet Keir Starmer and discuss with him some of the issues people have been raising with me on the doorstep: from the impact of the cost-of-living crisis to the difficulty in accessing NHS treatment.

“Labour has a plan to get our economy back on track, to support working people and to give people the world class public services they deserve. That is what a vote for Scottish Labour means in the election this year.”

In his speech to Scottish Labour Conference, Keir Starmer said:

“We know that we will have to fight for every vote. The right to say we are the change Scotland needs, must be earned, door to door, conversation to conversation, community by community, with our ears every bit as open as our mouths.

“But if people want to know what I would say to those voters who left us, I would say this: Scotland’s influence in Britain will be strongest when you have a Scottish Labour Party working with a Labour Government.

“If you want a Britain that places Scotland and its interests at the heart of the Westminster debate, if you want a politics that is committed to smashing the class ceiling, if you want to see more money for Scottish public services or Scottish community energy projects then that’s the change we can deliver for Scotland.”