SOCIALISTS set a target to double the Morning Star’s Scottish circulation this weekend.

At the paper’s readers’ and supporters’ conference in Glasgow on Saturday, Scottish TUC deputy general secretary Dave Moxham said the paper could take advantage of the collapse of the political centre to build support for a popular politics.

“We’re no longer in a situation where the right can say that, if it pulls the centre of gravity to the right, then the organised left will follow,” Mr Moxham said.