Jess Phillips is to “unashamedly” make the case for Labour as a unionist party during a visit to Scotland.

The Labour leadership candidate and Birmingham Yardley MP will travel to Glasgow today, where she is expected to pledge that a Labour Party led by her would be “100 per cent committed to the Union”.

Ms Phillips said: “The idea that the answer to the UK leaving a union with our most important trading partner is for Scotland to leave a union with her most important trading partner only makes sense if you’re a nationalist.

“Nicola Sturgeon wants to talk to me about threats to Scotland — the SNP’s abject failings on education and health show that it is her administration that remains a threat to