SCOTTISH Labour is reforming and is ready to take on an SNP administration more interested in a second referendum than governing in the interests of Scotland, Kezia Dugdale said yesterday.

The new party leader said that unlike her predecessors, she would not just listen but act to change Scottish Labour by offering new policies and rebuilding the frontbench team.

Ms Dugdale said Labour had to break its losing streak at next May’s elections to the Scottish Parliament.

She told activists in Brighton: “For eight years, the SNP government have had the chance to change our schools, change our hospitals, change our country for the better. But the truth is they haven’t.”

The Edinburgh and Lothians MSP vowed to campaign for better education ahead of the Holyrood polls, and added warnings of an NHS “creaking at the seams.”