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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 yacht railing against a boatload of refugees in the English Channel. The following day, Dawn Butler, t...
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 you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our und...
David Cameron and Lex Greensill to be quizzed by MPs Failed finance firm Greensill's 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 Greensill and which supplied credit to companies such as GFG, the sprawling conglomerate controlled by i...
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 the firm’s activities and its access to government ahead of its collapse into administration earli...