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Richard Leonard

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Gender Male
Age 62
Born Westow
United Kingdom
Party Scottish Labour
Date of birth January 1,1962
Position Member of the Scottish Parliament since 2016
Education University of Stirling
Pocklington School
Children1 son, 1 stepdaughter
Uk parti leader Jeremy Corbyn
Keir Starmer
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Richard Leonard Life story


Richard Leonard is a British politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2017 to 2021. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament, as one of the additional members for the Central Scotland region, since 2016. He ideologically identifies as a socialist, democrat and internationalist.

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... Jeremy Corbyn was greeted in Glasgow by Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard Pressed further on whether he would grant a vote if the SNP won the Holyrood election, Mr Corbyn replied: I m not in favour of it at all because I think the priorities for Scotland are ending inequality, poverty and injustice across Scotland and independence will bring with it an economic problem for Scotland...

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General election 2019: Labour candidate removed over anti-Semitism claims

Feb 16,2020 5:53 am

Labour said it had removed Safia Ali as its candidate over Facebook posts

Labour has removed one of its general election candidates over allegations that she made anti-Semitic posts on Facebook.

Safia Ali had been due to stand for The Party in the Falkirk seat in next month's election.

But Scottish Labour said it had taken "Immediate Action " to remove her as its candidate after the posts emerged.

It also expressed its "deep regret" that she had been selected to stand for The Party .

Scottish Labour General Secretary Michael Sharpe confirmed that The Party had withdrawn its support from Ms Ali - although her name will still appear on the ballot paper because she was removed after the close of nominations.

But he said he would not go into specific details about her case.

Mr Sharpe added: "I deeply regret the people of the Falkirk constituency will no longer have a Labour candidate to campaign and vote for on 12 December.

"There is No Place for anti-Semitism, or any form of racism and bigotry, in our party. That is why Labour is taking robust action to root it out of our movement and wider society. "

Mr Sharpe insisted that The Party had "significantly strengthened" its procedures, with "swift suspensions, new processes for rapid expulsions and An Education programme for members".

Bbc Scotland has been unable to contact Ms Ali for comment.

'Not complacent'

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard denied that anti-Semitism is rife throughout his party and suggested that the Facebook posts at the centre of the allegations against Ms Ali had escaped The Party 's attention during a trawl of her online activity.

On a visit to a Community shop in Midlothian, Mr Leonard was asked five times by the BBC if he would like to apologise to the Jewish Community .

He said those who had made anti-Semitic comments should do so, and insisted that Scottish Labour was "not complacent" about anti-Jewish racism in The Party and was keen to root it out.

Scottish Labour came second to the SNP's John Mcnally at the 2017 election in Falkirk, trailing by 4,923 votes.

Labour has been embroiled in allegations of anti-Semitism for More Than three years, with The Chief rabbi claiming earlier This Week that The Party is not doing enough to root out anti-Jewish racism.

In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil on Tuesday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was asked four times whether he would like to apologise to The British Jewish Community -

However, Mr Corbyn has stressed that there is No Place for anti-Semitism within Labour and said those guilty of anti-Jewish racism have been "brought to book".

Meanwhile, the Scottish Conservatives candidate, Flora Scarabello, on Wednesday after she was accused of using "anti-Muslim language".

Last week, the Tories also, Ryan Houghton, over allegations he had made anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments seven years previously.



labour party, anti-semitism, falkirk, scottish labour

Source of news: bbc.com

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