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PAULINE BRYAN explains how a new report on Scottish devolution aims to redistribute wealth and power in favour of the working class
Pauline Bryan at Glasgow City Halls

RICHARD LEONARD used a recent speech in Glasgow to call for the renewal of our democracy. 

He reported on the work of a project he had established along with deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party Lesley Laird and with the support of Jeremy Corbyn to consider how we can redistribute wealth and power. 

This was to include consideration of whether a federal settlement is the best way to rebalance the overly centralised UK state.

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