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SCOTTISH Labour leader Johann Lamont vowed yesterday to deliver the “maximum devolution Scotland would want” after the indy poll.

On Tuesday, she will unveil the findings of a commission she set up two years ago, which will call for enhanced powers for the ­Scottish Government.

They will recommend that, in the event of Scots rejecting ­independence, Holyrood are given further tax-raising powers and the ability to borrow money to increase their annual budget.

Lamont said it would mean Scotland will no longer be reliant on a fixed budget from ­Westminster.

She said: “This week we will unveil the final report after two years’ work and much debate.

“Many people had been calling for us to bring forward a concept called devo max.

“Well, we believe this is the maximum devolution Scotland would want before the union itself starts to get picked apart and Scotland loses out.

“We have tried and tested our ideas to the final degree so that we can propose a settlement for Scotland that makes sense.

“I believe it can herald a new chapter in Scottish ­politics.”

She said that under Labour, Scotland would be given “powers for a purpose” not “power for power’s sake”.

Lamont said: “We will have ­serious borrowing powers to invest in our priorities to grow the Scottish economy.

“And we will have an economic incentive to grow our economy because the more money we raise in tax, the more we will

have to spend on our schools and ­hospitals.

"I hope it will mean the end of the politics of division and ­grievance which have taken over Scottish politics in recent years – ending the blame game and instead taking the power and responsibility into our hands.

“No longer should we looking over our shoulder at Westminster arguing for more money.

“It will be within our gift to decide our budget.”

After Gordon Brown called for Holyrood to be given greater power over the level of income tax last week, SNP deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said when Labour are in a position to deliver more powers, they fail to do so.

Meanwhile, former Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy will warn the No campaign must reach out to the 300,000 “don’t know” ­working and lower middle class Scots.

In a Better Together speech in Glasgow tomorrow, he will say: “The voters who may make the ­difference in the referendum are more likely to be nurses, ­teachers, plumbers, joiners, checkout ­operators and cleaners.

“These are busy and clever Scots, warm hearted and hard headed, patriotic and ­pragmatic. They want to do what is best for our country.

“But as this ­campaign heats up more and more, people are ­starting to think the SNP seem to care more about their own nationalism than our nation. The type of people I’m thinking about includes those who are working hard for all they have.

“People I would call the ‘copers’. Those people only ever one wage packet away from hardship.

“I’m thinking of the mum I met working at the all-night Asda who kisses her kids goodnight and goes to work.

“That midnight mum and so many others are entitled to know how much they will have to pay for the SNP’s dreams.”