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KATE Forbes has angered campaigners after her advisory group tasked with drawing up a 10-year strategy to transform Scotland into a net zero economy…

IN another time, the week just passed would have been considered a good one for the UK left. The pitilessness of the right seemed to have been exposed in all its shame and then skittled. The anti-Islam activist, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, was ruled to have libelled a Syrian schoolboy and made to pay him £100,000 in damages. The news of Mr Robinson’s latest courtroom defeat came as Nigel Farage – a millionaire stockbroker – filmed himself from the deck of a luxury yach...

Nicola Sturgeon scraps key economic body set up by Alex Salmond The SNP administration has axed the 14-year-old Council of Economic Advisers (COEA) in favour of a new brains trust. 04:30, 10 JUL 2021 Updated Nicola Sturgeon with Alex Salmond in 2015 (Image: PA) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe We use your sign-up to provide content in ways youve consented to and to ...

David Cameron and Lex Greensill to be quizzed by MPs Failed finance firm Greensills founder and former PM face questions about attempts to secure Covid loans David Cameron and Lex Greensill during a trip to Saudi Arabia Credit: Wall Street Journal Former Prime Minister David Cameron and Lex Greensill will appear before MPs to account for the failure of finance firm Greensill and its lobbying of government before it imploded. Mr Cameron was an adviser to the firm, which was founded by Mr Greens...

Cameron set for grilling over Treasury lobbying Former PM and financier Lex Greensill will face select committee probe next week, MPs confirm David Cameron PA 07 May 2021 David Cameron will next week be put under the spotlight to answer hugely uncomfortable questions over his lobbying of chancellor Rishi Sunak and HM Treasury perm sec Sir Tom Scholar on behalf of failed financial firm Greensill Capital. Members of the Treasury Select Committee are running one of three parliamentary probes into ...

MPs told BEIS non-executive director is “wrong man” to probe government’s involvement with collapsed financial firm

With a former Tory prime minister at the heart of a scandal and Conservatives dominating the House of Commons it has proved hard to awaken the beast. But questions over David Cameron’s role at Greensill finance have catapulted the affair into the public domain. As a result, the finance group’s intimate relationship with Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance steel group has been exposed and the Commons committees responsible have decided that hearings cannot be avoided. Greensills relationship with...

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David Cameron’s embarrassment over lobbying Ministers for a private finance firm has been stoked by aides of Michael Gove, the former Prime Minister’s allies claimed yesterday. They also suspect former top civil servants Bob Kerslake and Nick Macpherson of having played a part in revelations over Mr Cameron’s intervention on behalf of Greensill Capital. Mr Cameron has suffered mounting scrutiny over his efforts to get the company access to Covid loans – efforts which involved lobbying C...

Michael Gove, the Tory Party’s favourite limbo dancer, since few people are prepared to go lower FOR those whose gaze keeps straying to matters unconnected with gaining independence, let me point out that the Unionist camp is already dressed for battle, and pumping out daily propaganda. It may consist of material which is misleading, mischievous, or, in very many cases, a work of complete unadulterated fiction. Yet we underestimate the possible impact on the undecided voter at our peril...