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SCOTTISH Labour leadership hopeful Richard Leonard has saluted the “timely” convening of the Morning Star’s Big Capital, Small Nations conference in Glasgow this weekend.
The summit — featuring an opening address by shadow chancellor John McDonnell — will focus on “how politics can be changed to enable small nations, like Scotland, to exercise democratic power in the interests of working people.”
Mr Leonard, a veteran socialist who has won the backing of every trade union to declare a favourite so far, warned that Scotland is rapidly turning into a “branch plant economy” with over a third of its economy owned by overseas investors.
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