Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray has announced plans to boost public sector workers' pay to more than £7 an hour. Despite tough spending cuts on the horizon, he told his party's UK conference that the lowest paid workers must be protected. Mr Gray said he would also restrict high salaries in the public sector. All the Scottish parties are on an election footing in the run up to next May's Holyrood election. Mr Gray told delegates in Manchester of his manifesto commitment to establish a "Scottish living wage", which the private sector will also be encouraged to take up. The policy is similar to the one announced last year by the then leader of Glasgow City Council, Steven Purcell. The national minimum wage currently sits at £5.80 an hour for those above the age of 22.
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