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Michael Blackey

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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Michael Blackey

    Now brace for more SNP cuts: warning amid public sector reform failure (opens the original)

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    Cuts to frontline services may be needed because plans to reduce the size of the public sector workforce have fallen ‘off course’, the Deputy First Minister has admitted. Jenny Gilruth accepted that there is now a risk of major cutbacks to services because the number of staff working in the public sector has continued to grow. The SNP Government had set out plans to reduce the workforce by an average of 0.5 per cent per year until the end of this decade as part of efforts to plug a £5billion bla

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Michael Blackey

    Swinney warned over price cap on items like milk, bread and eggs (opens the original)

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    The food price cap proposed by John Swinney risks forcing up other supermarket costs for families, could trigger shortages of some products and will damage investment, industry leaders have warned. Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Scotland has provided a damning assessment of the major negative impacts if the First Minister goes ahead with the proposal, which was a flagship announcement in the SNP’s manifesto for this year’s Holyrood election. He will confirm next week whether he is going ahead w

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Michael Blackey

    SNP split deepens as John Swinney's own MSP rejects new drilling (opens the original)

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    John Swinney is facing more splits over oil and gas after one of his MSPs and former ministers called for two key North Sea drilling projects to be rejected. Paul McLennan, the former housing minister, called for the Prime Minister Andy Burnham to ‘see sense’ and knock back the Rosebank and Jackdaw developments. His intervention reveals major splits among the SNP’s MSPs about the issue – with some senior members of the party actively campaigning for the drilling projects to go ahead. After he wa

  4. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Michael Blackey

    Concern as state-owned bank launched by SNP set to lose £110m (opens the original)

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    A state-owned bank is facing £110million of losses from failed investments following the collapse of firms it invested in. An independent review of the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) has revealed that financial losses have been made on six projects which it supported since being set up by Nicola Sturgeon in 2020 when she was First Minister. Up to the end of March this year, there were £73million of losses following the collapse of four firms the taxpayer-funded bank invested in. There

  5. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Michael Blackey

    Naive SNP 'dismiss security warning over China' (opens the original)

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    Experts have condemned the SNP for being ‘enormously naïve’ for demanding a controversial renewables project by a Chinese developer should be allowed to go ahead. First Minister John Swinney urged Andy Burnham to overrule an earlier decision to block Ming Yang’s proposed wind turbine factory at Ardersier, near Inverness. The £1.5billion plans were deemed a risk to national security resulting in the UK Government pulling the plug on the offshore hub in March, with the Holyrood administration accu

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