JIM Murphy launched his party's Scottish campaign following a visit to a Glasgow foodbank.

The Labour leader went to the Destiny foodbank in the Gorbals yesterday along with MP Anas Sarwar and afterwards addressed a group of activists nearby.

The pair spoke with volunteers and staff at the centre, which helps dozens of starving locals every day.

The East Renfrewshire MP said: "It breaks my heart as a Scot to see parents queueing up at food banks to get free food for their children.

"Thousands of Scots every day are forced to ask for food hand-outs simply to survive, while the Tories look after their rich friends in the City of London and elsewhere.

"This is not the kind of country we want. One where working class families are forced to depend on the charity of others to eat."

He used the opportunity to criticise his opponents for the growing number of foodbanks in the country, and added: "This is not the kind of country we want.

"One where working class families are forced to depend on the charity of others to eat.

"We want a country where parents can earn enough to look after their children, a country where working class children can do better than their parents.

"The Tories don't even know how many people use food banks - still less do they care.

"Scottish Labour has a plan to end the need for food banks, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because we fundamentally believe in the redistribution of wealth to create opportunity for working class people.

The Scottish Labour leader said his party would end the need for food banks, abolish the "bedroom tax", ban zero hours contracts, raise the minimum wage and extend the Living Wage.

Labour has also pledged to cap energy bills and rent rises if it is voted into government.