CASH from bankers bonuses in London should be use to ensure young people in Glasgow have jobs, Ed Miliband has said.

Mr Miliband said it was fair that cash from one part of the UK should be used to help people in other parts where it was needed most.

In an Exclusive interview with the Evening Times Mr Miliband said the level of poverty in the city was shocking and said it was a direct result of a Tory government.

The Labour leader was in Glasgow to see apprentices at the City Building training centre in Queenslie in the east of the city, with Scottish leader Jim Murphy and Shadow Scottish Secretary, Margaret Curran.

After a tour of the training facility he said: "The most important thing we can do at a UK level is the proposal we've made on the bank bonus tax for youth jobs because that's guaranteeing every young person a job, a proper job at least minimum wage job after a year out of work.

It's really important for a number of reasons, one, young people are our future, we can't leave them on the dole month after month, year after year.

"We are a United Kingdom and we distribute resources across the UK. This is about saying we are helping people across the UK.

"The banks are in certain parts of the UK but we can help young people across the UK.

And that's part of who we are as a country and I know it's really important to Glasgow to get young people back into work again."

He said the wages would be paid from bankers bonus tax and employers would provide the training.

Mr Miliband reacted to an Evening Times Story revealing half a million pounds was paid in crisis grants for food to poverty stricken families in the last year.

He said: "It's a shocking situation and a lot of it is a consequence of having a Conservative Government. We are a country of food banks and bank bonuses and we've got to change that.

He said there are three reasons why people end up in food banks, low wages, personal debt and the inadequacy of the benefit system.

He said: "So we've got to raise the minimum wage, a pay rise for 100,000 Scots, to at least £8 an hour by the end of the parliament.

"We have to deal with the issue of personal debt and take action on pay day lenders and also you've got to have a benefit system that actually works.

"The benefit system has to deliver. There's nothing more likely to send people into destitution and food poverty than a benefit system that doesn't deliver. There are months after months of delays in the benefit system and that's not acceptable."

The Labour leader said his priorities were social justice, raising the minimum wage and jobs for young people.