THE UK government has failed to deliver change in its five months in power — and Scots feel “betrayed and let down” — the SNP claims.

Former Scottish government minister and present SNP deputy leader Keith Brown branded Labour’s 26 weeks in office a “litany of failure,” arguing that it had made “no difference” since the July general election despite Sir Keir Starmer promising “change.”

He said: “Keir Starmer repeatedly promised voters ‘change’ while his Scottish leader Anas Sarwar vowed that there ‘would be no austerity under Labour.’

“After less than six months in power, voters across Scotland rightly feel betrayed and let down once again.”

Mr Brown, who campaigned for Scotland to leave the UK and, with it, the EU in 2014’s referendum, branded the years since a “decade of broken promises.”

He said: “Whether it’s the decision to scrap the winter fuel payment, failure to abolish cruel Tory policies such as the two-child benefit cap or their refusal to even address the disaster which is Brexit — it is clearer than ever that it makes no difference to people in Scotland which party is in power at Westminster.

“These are policies that the SNP is having to mitigate, where possible, and in doing so are lifting thousands of children out of poverty — something that Labour inexplicably refuse to do.

“We may have seen a change in the occupant of Number 10 in 2024, but this year has seen none of the real change we were promised.”

Scottish Labour MSP Michael Marra hit back: “After 14 years of Tory misery, it is downright insulting for the SNP to pretend this change in government doesn’t matter.

“The Labour government has ended the era of Tory austerity and delivered the largest budget settlement for Scotland in the history of devolution, boosting funding by £5.2 billion and enabling record investment in our NHS.

“Work is under way to deliver the greatest transfer of money and power to workers in a generation with Labour’s plan to Make Work Pay and deliver cheaper, cleaner energy with a publicly owned GB Energy company based here in Scotland.

“Labour is already cleaning up the Tories’ mess and changing lives for the better — and this is only the beginning.

“The SNP is resorting to cynical and desperate attacks on Labour because its tired and out-of-touch government has nothing else to offer the people of Scotland.”