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In the Labour Party we must end the retreat from political principle and class politics
We need to create a proper industrial strategy by making – and winning – the argument that society needs a transfer from those who own the wealth to those who create it, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP

A COUPLE of months into the pandemic there appeared to be a whole new mood transferring from the people to Parliament. 

I tried to capture it in a speech to the Holyrood chamber in May 2020 where I spoke of a “popular mood for change.” 

It was a strong conviction that there could be no going back to the way things were. No return to homelessness and rough sleeping and no return to the unequal society and the imbalanced economy. 

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