Richard Leonard has said he believes there would be a "diminished appetite" for Scottish independence if a Labour Government was elected. In an interview with the PA News agency ahead of the vote on December 12, the Scottish Labour leader said his party's plans to invest in public services and communities across the country would offer a radical change to the Tories after a decade of austerity.
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He said Labour would commit to abolishing the House of Lords – replacing it with a second chamber for the nations and regions – in a bid to decentralise power in the UK.
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- Richard Leonard (@LabourRichard) December 5, 2019
"For 10 years and therefore in most people's recent memory, there has been a hostile, antipathetic Government at a UK level to the Government in Scotland and to the priorities of the Scottish Parliament," Mr Leonard said.
"So it's been, not all the time but for much of that time, there's been a real tussle about how to deal with the situation where resources are being constricted rather than expanded.
"There would be such a change overnight with the election of a Labour Government that said 'we think the decade of austerity was an experiment that's failed and we don't think we can afford another day of that, never mind another five years of that'."
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He added: "So we want to change that completely, we want to start to invest and we think the way to build a future for peop
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