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The government has published its latest set of no deal Brexit planning papers.
They are all here, on the gov.uk website, alongside the papers published on the first two release days.
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Richard Leonard, the Scottish Labour leader, used his speech to the conference this afternoon to float the idea of using a wealth tax to raise almost 4bn in Scotland. He told delegates:
In Scotland today the richest one per cent own more personal wealth than the whole of the poorest 50% put together.
So instead of a fervent devotion to inequality from the Tories, and timidity and mediocrity from the Nationalists, it is time for moral courage and audacity from Labour. Which is why I have said that the time has come to consider a wealth tax.
Labour has unfinished business on land reform. Labour abolished feudalism in the first term of the Scottish Parliament, but twenty years later we are still living with feudal ownership, with four hundred and thirty-two private landowners still owning a half of all privately owned land in Scotland.
And with ownership comes power. We need land justice because our earth is a common treasury. We need land ownership in Scotland, for the many not the few.
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