SNP Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing
CONTINUING the best of the best from 21 years of The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards while Covid puts 2020 on hold, the judges come to a category that seems more vital than ever, yet which has often been sorely short of contenders. The Politics in Business award was created shortly after the last great economic crisis to recognise the MPs and MSPs with the best grasp of what business needed to prosper again. The inaugural winners, an SNP and a Labour MP, had little in common politically, but Stewart Hosie and Jim McGovern fought side-by-side for the computer games industry in their Dundee constituencies.