Nicola Sturgeon was met with protesters from the St Rollox Caley rail works on a final election campaign visit in Springburn this morning.

The First Minister was in the Glasgow North East constituency to support SNP candidate Anne McLaughlin.

A group from Unite greeted her with a Rally Roon the Caley banner stating ‘200 jobs sacrificed by the SNP’.

Ms Sturgeon stopped and listened to the campaigners and explained her government’s position.

Les Ashton, former Caley shop steward, asked why the depot was allowed to close and others like Ferguson’s Shipyard was saved.

Ms Sturgeon said: “I know you disagree but where it is possible for us to do these things our record shows we do it.

“In your shoes, I would feel as strongly as you do, but I don’t want you to think we didn’t look seriously at it, because we did.”

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She was then asked by a man about drug deaths in Glasgow.

David Steven asked: “What was the SNP doing about drug deaths in Scotland and especially in this community?”

Last week around 300 people including Ms McLaughlin and Labour candidate Paul Sweeney with others including Conservative MSP Annie Wells and councillor Thomas Kerr, attended a candlelit procession to remember the people who died from drugs in 2018.

Ms Sturgeon responded by saying more money has been put into rehab and said it needs to be treated as a public health issue.

She was asked how many people died last year. She said 1127.

Ms Sturgeon said: “Whatever the statistics were, they were too high. Mr Steven said “You might want to look at those statistics again.”

The actual number in 2018 was 1187.

Ms Sturgeon said, as she boarded the campaign bus to head to Gorbals for the final campaign event: “SNP MPs will make Glasgow’s voice heard at Westminster.

“In Glasgow the Tories can’t win and Labour isn’t strong enough to stand up to the Tories.”

Earlier Jeremy Corbyn kicked off the final day of election campaigning in Glasgow urging people to vote Labour to end austerity and tackle poverty.

The Labour leader started his whistle-stop tour of Great Britain in Govan early in the morning.

Mr Corbyn told the crowd of Labour activists that only his party could defeat the Tories.

He said: “People have a choice. Get a government they can trust, that will eradicate child poverty, end the cruelty and injustice of Universal Credit and give hope to the next generation by investing in education.

“Elect a government that will not leave the Waspi women behind and will build the houses needed to end homelessness.”

Labour is looking to reclaim seats in Glasgow it lost to the SNP in 2015 and Mr Corbyn said that to get rid of a Tory government people need to vote Labour.

He added: “In this city of Glasgow which has some of the poorest people and lowest life expectancy in the UK we need a government that will end austerity and give hope and security to people.”

He was joined by Labour Glasgow South West candidate, Matt Kerr and Scottish Labour leader, Richard Leonard, before heading to his next stop in the north of England.”

The Labour leader said his party had suffered “unbelievable levels of abuse” during the campaign from sections of the media.

He added “We do not bow down. We have never indulged in politics of personal abuse. It doesn’t build a house and it doesn’t train a doctor.

“We will never accept racism in any form or discrimination.”

He then went on to question the honesty of Boris Johnson.

He asked: “Can you honestly trust a Prime Minister who can’t tell the truth about trade negotiations with America?”

He concluded: “You can vote for despair and dishonesty with this government or you can vote Labour and get determination to bring about justice and tolerance in society.”

Meanwhile Boris Johnson started the day by walking away from a TV reporter who was asking him to appear of ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

Mr Johnson was seen walking away entering a walk in fridge at the dairy where he was campaigning.

Good Morning Britain also challenged Mr Corbyn in Glasgow to appear on the show. He stopped and said he had the invite and would appear.