RUTH Davidson is targeting Labour and LibDem voters at next year’s Holyrood elections.

The Scottish Tory leader is speaking at the Conservative Party UK Conference in Manchester today and urged people who voted no in the referendum to back her party.

She is expected to issue a call to Scotland’s no voters to back the conservatives who she said are the only party proud to have backed the union.

Ms Davidson, who is giving up her Glasgow list seat to contest a place in Edinburgh on the regional list, wants to increase their number of list MSPs across Scotland.

She is expected to say: "In May, many Scottish Conservative voters supported other pro UK parties in the hope of stopping the SNP.

"I can tell you, there are two reasons why this will not happen next year.

"Firstly, because Labour and the LibDems now seem to be embarrassed by their support for Scotland's place in the UK and secondly it's because next year every single vote counts.

"As the head of our campaign, I have made it clear to my team that I want to target the regional list vote next year.”

She will say every vote for the Conservatives is a vote for the union.

She will say: “If you're one of the two million people who voted No in last year's referendum, use it as your intelligent vote for the Union.”

Meanwhile Ms Davidson has been urged to use her speech to speak up for the families in Glasgow where she is still an MSP, who will lose out due to cuts to tax credits.

Frank McAveety, leader of Glasgow City Council,said 50,000 families in the city are facing a cut in income.

He said: “As Ruth Davidson addresses Tory conference today, she does so having played her part in imposing a work penalty on working families in Glasgow.

“Tax credits work. That’s why the last UK Labour Government established them and that’s why Scottish Labour opposes these Tory tax credit cuts.

“The so-called ‘National Living Wage’ is not a real Living Wage and will simply not compensate these families for their loss of income. Middle and low income families in Glasgow need support, not spin from the Tories.”

He said a family making a new claim in 2017-18 will be £1,859 a year worse off.

Mr McAveety said: “Ruth Davidson should stand up for working families in Glasgow and call for a halt to tax credit cuts.”