DOUGLAS Ross was told off by a BBC presenter for speaking an “awful lot about the SNP” during his morning media round on Tuesday.
Conservativesector and told host Laura Maxwell: “I mean I was with the Prime Minister lats week up in Nigg. That is a yard that is still involved in the oil and gas industry at the moment but is also developing the renewable technologies that we need for that just transition to net zero.
“Well I’m looking at what businesses are saying here in Scotland and we’re on to speak about the Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, a representative body of businesses in the north east of Scotland who are claiming that Labour’s policies will put at risk 100,000 jobs here in Scotland. “That business rates relief was very welcome in England. The Scottish Government, the SNP got the money to do that here in Scotland and failed to pass it on two years in a row.
The presenter again hit back, telling the Scottish Tory leader: “It’s not that I don’t want to hear it, it’s just you’re mentioning the SNP an awful lot there.”We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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