article_snippet: Labour will 'redistribute' hundreds of millions of pounds from England to Scotland if it wins the election, Labour Party's leader north of the border boasted yesterday.
article_snippet: Jim Murphy pledged in a speech in the City of London to use money raided from the pensions of better-off workers in England to pay for a 'jobs guarantee' for young people in Scotland, and higher bursaries for Scottish students.
article_snippet: Jim Murphy has already angered voters in England by boasting that Jim Murphy will use the proceeds of a mansion tax in the South East to pay for an extra 1,000 nurses in Scotland.
article_snippet: A Scottish Labour source said that, unlike the SNP, A Scottish Labour source could promise to raise taxes in England and spend them in Scotland. '
article_snippet: This announcement means two of Scottish Labour's first three election pledges will be funded by money raised from the more prosperous parts of the UK.'