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New rights for employees

Leonard repeats pledge to boost worker ownership

Richard Leonard
Richard Leonard: workers should have a stake (pic: Terry Murden)   Workers in Scotland will be given first refusal to buy their companies if they are failing or put upRead More

Leonard unveils changes

Sarwar and Baillie axed in Scottish Labour reshuffle

Anas Sarwar
Anas Sarwar: learned of sacking on Twitter (pic: Terry Murden)   Two of Scottish Labour’s highest profile front benchers have been sacked in a reshuffle announced by leader Richard Leonard.Read More

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Pensioners would be hit by Leonard’s tax on wealthy

Richard Leonard at Penicuik
Richard Leonard: call for levy on wealthiest Scots (pic: Terry Murden)   Pensioners would be among the hardest hit by Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard’s proposed windfall tax on theRead More

As I See It

Leonard’s envy politics won’t make us great again

Richard Leonard
Richard Leonard's envy politics risks alienating those creating Scotland's wealth, writes TERRY MURDEN

Labour conference

Labour would force firms to hand shares to workers

Richard Leonard and Jeremy Corbyn at Penicuik
Key speeches: Richard Leonard and Jeremy Corbyn (pic: Terry Murden)   Large firms would be forced to give shares to their workers worth up to £500 a year each underRead More

Leader targets seats

Scotland holds key to ousting Tories, says Corbyn

Leonard and Corbyn at Alexander Dennis
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will today claim that Scotland holds the key to delivering a change ..

Labour leader at bus firm

Corbyn launches industrial plan amid Brexit betrayal claim

Jeremy Corbyn at Alexander Dennis
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn today faced claims he is supporting the Tories' jobs-destroying Brexit ...

Leonard demands nationalisation

LNER takes to rails as Labour steps up campaign

First LNER trains
Labour will mark the return of East Coast Main Line trains to pubic ownership by launching ...

Labour leader attacks report

Commission proposes a ‘wasted decade’, says Leonard

Richard Leonard at Penicuik
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard today accused the SNP's blueprint producers of promoting an austerity agenda

'Welcome commitment'

Cross-party talks to seek end to Brexit deadlock

Richard Leonard at Penicuik
The Scottish Government has agreed to explore cross-party talks in a bid to break the deadlock over the EU Withdrawal Bill.