Coinciding with Tony Blair's launch of Labour's manifesto in Birmingham on Wednesday, separate Scottish and Welsh version have been revealed - to a wave of criticism from the party's opponents.

Speaking in Glasgow, Scottish secretary Helen Liddell said the manifesto would promote the party's aims of fairness and opportunity for all.

"It is the Labour-led Scottish executive that will deliver the improvements to Scotland's public services. But we need a Labour UK government committed to the investment that will make it happen," she said.

First Minister Henry McLeish added: "We need a UK government committed to prosperity and fairness for all, and a Scottish Executive that sets Scottish priorities and delivers on them."

The SNP focused on Labour's spending plans and accused them of failing to keep their promises during the last parliament.

Scottish nationalist leader John Swinney said: "The page in the UK manifesto that guarantees increased investment and more nurses, doctors, teachers, and police officers south of the border does not even appear in the Scottish manifesto."

He added "Labour are confused on tax, but Helen Liddell and Henry McLeish are raising the prospect of income tax going up in Scotland - not to invest extra in public services, but to fill the hole that Labour's squeeze is creating in Scottish spending."

Malcolm Bruce, Scottish Lib Dem leader, called the Labour manifesto "bog standard" and argued there is a real sense of disappointment with Labour.

"After 18 years of Tory chaos and under-funding, Labour has been guilty of a poverty of ambition for our public services, and pensioners," said Bruce.

At the manifesto launch in Wales Paul Murphy, the Welsh secretary, said Labour's plans were a stark contrast to those of the Conservative's when they were in power.

"Renewal of our public services is at the centre of Welsh Labour's manifesto. A single aim drives our policy programme for Wales: to liberate people's potential by spreading power, wealth and opportunity more widely, breaking down the barriers that hold people back," said Murphy.

Also at the launch in Rhyl was first minister Rhodri Morgan, who called the manifesto proof a working partnership between Labour in Wales and Westminster.

"We are setting out today shared ideals and shared ambitions, for a better Wales and a better Britain. I look forward to playing my part in implementing these exciting plans," said Morgan.

However, Plaid Cymru's policy director, Cynog Dafis, called Labour's new manifesto "a study in spin" and said it offered a continuation of Tory economic policies.

"New Labour has guaranteed a static income tax rate for the rich. The resulting public spending chasm will be filled by the private sector - which in turn provide a morally bankrupt government with someone else to blame when things go wrong," added Dafis.

The Lib Dems in Wales said the manifesto lacked ambition and proved that Labour were concentrating their efforts on wooing middle England.

Speaking for the party, Richard Livsey said: "They have made no attempt to address the Barnett Formula - the problem of funding facing Wales, and no attempt to give the power to the assembly that will allow Wales to mature politically."