maximum effect to support economic growth for a purpose pushed up to help businesses and trade to thrive and to maximise the opportunity for and to maximise the opportunity for a fair green economy. a crucial part of this is about making a just transition to net zero. we will never do to oil and gas workers in the north east of scotland what thatcher did to our mining and steel communities. applause. we will take the workers of the north east andy hall scotland with us on our green journey. the scotland programme on its own, for example, offers the potential of £28 billion of supply chain work based in scotland. our renewable energy resources will also help us to develop a hydrogen sector, which is
maximum effect to support economic growth for a purpose pushed up to help businesses and trade to thrive and to maximise the opportunity for and to maximise the opportunity for a fair green economy. a crucial part of this is about making a just transition to net zero. we will never do to oil and gas workers in the north east of scotland what thatcher did to our mining and steel communities. applause. we will take the workers of the north east andy hall scotland with us on our green journey. the scotland programme on its own, for example, offers the potential of £28 billion of supply chain work based in scotland. our renewable energy resources will also help us to develop a hydrogen sector, which is
was inevitable, that that would happen. if there was a failure, it was only a failure when that would occur. but we ve been very clear that we saw that as an inevitable outcome of withdrawing our support, not only our forces on the ground, but also the ministerial support, if you will, the logistic support that helped the afghan supply chain work and provide their forces in the field with equipment to maintain their aeroplanes. we cut that off and reduced it to an over the horizon support relationship. and that led to what happened in august. would you say, then, that the united states is less safe now for leaving afghanistan? i believe that we were in afghanistan to prevent i the development of violent extremist organisations that would flourish there, particularly al-qaeda and isis. and i believe we have less capability now than we did before to monitor and suppress the development of those activities. so in that sense, yes, i believe we are less safe now than we were before.
brought us to that point in august. would you say it was a massive intelligence failure? no, i wouldn t. i think we had predicted all along that if we withdrew all our forces from afghanistan and nato left with us, that the fall of the government of afghanistan was inevitable, that that would happen. if there was a failure, it was only a failure when that would occur. but we ve been very clear that we saw that as an inevitable outcome of withdrawing our support, not only our forces on the ground, but also the ministerial support, if you will, the logistic support that helped the afghan supply chain work and provide their forces in the field with equipment to maintain their aeroplanes. we cut that off and reduced it to an over the horizon support relationship. and that led to what happened in august. would you say, then, that the united states is less safe now for leaving afghanistan? i believe that we were in afghanistan to prevent the development of violent extremist