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A member of the audience at the Fabian Society event urged Lord Timpson to consider community sentences as a “direct alternative” to imprisoning offenders.

Labour won just two of the 124 most rural constituencies in Great Britain at the last election, according to research by the left-leaning Fabian Society think tank.

Ten minutes into his address at the Fabian Society conference on foreign policy in London, a woman climbed on stage carrying a Palestinian flag.

But the Fabian Society report suggests a care cap should simply be "considered" as an option by Labour, with reform of means-testing as another possibility.

In the speech, hosted by the Fabian Society, Mr Sarwar said the SNP and Tories had "stoked up bitterness, division and anger and created a politics of us versus them".