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‘Too much power lies in too few hands,’ Leonard tells Queen
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard speaks before Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Rothesay during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of devolution in the Holyrood chamber at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh
“TOO much power still lies in too few hands,” Richard Leonard told the Queen on the 20th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament this weekend.
The Scottish Labour leader used his address at the official celebrations to emphasise that there was still “unfinished business.”
Breaking with the convention of party leaders’ speeches at such events being non-partisan and conciliatory, he warned: “And over the last decade the rich have got richer as the poor have got poorer.
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