Former Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Tourism Fergus Ewing was the key contact for steel billionaire Gupta, holding regular meetings, including an un-minuted, private dinner with the controversial banker at the heart of the Conservative lobbying scandal, Lex Greensill, and Gupta back in 2017. Ministers engagements for 2020 list three phone meetings with Gupta and Ewing not on the lobbying register. A GFG Alliance spokesperson said: “GFG is a significant employer and investor in the UK and as part of its normal course of doing business we engage with a range of stakeholders, including politicians, on a number of topics that relate to our businesses. We have strong links with the Scottish and Welsh governments because of the plants and jobs in Scotland and Wales.”
PREMIUM National scandal : Four lifeline Scots ferries break down in three weeks and replacement can only take four lorries SCOTLAND S lifeline ferry network is in crisis ahead of the easing of lockdown with four vessels breaking down in the space of three weeks and a replacement freight service that can only take four lorries, the Herald can reveal. Campaigners have have said that heads should already have rolled over the state of the nation s ferry services describing it as a national scandal . CalMac s largest ferry MV Loch Seaforth has been taken off the Ullapool-Stornoway route to be taken into dry dock for major engine repairs.
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The Arran Ferry Action Group are seeking the upgrading of Gourock so it can be reinstated as the port of refuge.
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