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Richard Leonard demands control of Scottish Labour's Holyrood election campaign

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Richard Leonard has called on the Labour leadership candidates to ensure decisions on Scotland’s constitutional future are made north of the border.The Scottish Labour leader also demanded full control of next year’s Holyrood election campaign, including over resources.Autonomy has been an issue in the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn amid claims the Scottish party is merely a “branch office”.Leonard strongly opposed indyref2 until last summer, when shadow chancellor John McDonnell unilaterally announced a Labour government would not block another referendum.McDonnell’s intervention angered Scottish Labour activists and MSPs who believed the new message undermined them during the general election.All three leadership candidates - Keir

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