Left-wing supporters of both sides in the independence referendum challeged each other yesterday at a packed Morning Star Scottish conference in Glasgow yesterday.

Convener of Yes Scotland Dennis Canavan said: “I don’t imagine there will be a socialist revolution in the aftermath of a Yes vote. But independence gives us a huge opportunity to do things differently and better.”

He said the Commonweal proposals from the Jimmy Reid Foundation were ideas of economic self determination which the left could agree on “but the basic question is how to achieve this.”