PM seeks Labour revival in Scotland

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He will lay into the minority SNP administration in Holyrood over education and other services, while depicting Labour as the public's "last line of defence".

Mr Brown will mount the assault at the opening day of the Scottish Labour party's annual conference at Aviemore, in the Highlands.

The Scottish party is still coming to terms with the shock of last year's Scottish elections when the SNP won power at Holyrood and Labour also lost control of a swathe of local authorities.

The party's Scottish leader, Wendy Alexander, was embroiled in a row over donations to her leadership campaign last summer, and also faced mutterings over her performances against Alex Salmond in Holyrood at First Minister's Questions.

To the dismay of Labour supporters, the party is still lagging behind the SNP in opinion polls and Ms Alexander's popularity ratings are well behind Mr Salmond's.

The party has sought to regain ground by launching an inquiry into Scotland's constitutional future but has faced accusations that it will be Mr Brown who calls the shots on this.

In his conference speech, Mr Brown will tell activists: "Scotland stands on the brink of unprecedented prosperity, but is held back by an Executive that doesn't understand the modern world and has no plan except to retreat from it."

He will argue that while Labour built or renewed 328 schools and were promising to build 250 more, the SNP had commissioned "not a single new school building" in the last 10 months.

http//:www.scottishlabour.org.uk(Scottish Labour Party)