The Chancellor’s career and Labour’s future rests on her not betraying businesses in her budget, writes TERRY MURDEN Offshore Energies UK has been saying it. Even Scottish Renewables. Now the British Chambers of Commerce, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, and Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce are saying it. The energy profits levy (EPL), or windfall […]
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Swinney re-arms in war of independence
The SNP leader is using the election campaign to position himself as a statesman, says TERRY MURDEN Buoyed by favourable opinion polls, John Swinney is managing to wrongfoot his election rivals with some canny campaign tactics that may prove the old warhorse has plenty of fuel in the tank. Whether he’s saving Africa, supporting Palestine […]
Case for oil & gas has SNP over a barrel
Softening attitudes to fossil fuels could ease tensions in the energy industry, writes TERRY MURDEN Norwegian energy company Equinor has done what was asked of it by declaring how much CO2 will be pumped into the atmosphere if it extracts 300 million barrels of oil from the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea. It […]
Starmer full of pomp and more promises
The PM says he’s supporting working people, but are they supporting him, asks TERRY MURDEN So Sir Keir Starmer wants to present himself and his party as the good guys fighting for decency, patriotism and togetherness, a Prime Minister on the side of working people, business and the four nations. That’s the same chap who, […]
Why Kate Forbes was an SNP misfit
The Deputy First Minister and the party have grown too far apart for her to have led it, writes TERRY MURDEN As Scotland braced itself for the impact of Storm Floris the political wind of change was about to inflict more damage on the Scottish National Party. The surprise decision by Deputy First Minister Kate […]