RICHARD LEONARD welcomed the growing influence of the Morning Star in Scotland today, prior to the paper’s Christmas bazaar in Glasgow on Saturday.

The Scottish Labour leader, a long-standing contributor to the people’s paper said: “The Morning Star’s contribution to the labour movement and the left is invaluable and deserves our full backing.

“The Star’s recent expansion in Scotland is a very welcome development and I hope people across the movement will support the paper by going along to the annual Christmas bazaar.”