JOHN Swinney has rejected claims that he showed a “lack of candour” made by the chairman of the Edinburgh tram inquiry.
called for the former deputy first minister to make a statement in the Scottish Parliament after the inquiry questioned his “integrity”.
Hardie took particular aim at Swinney’s involvement, as well as other ministers, the Transport Initiatives Edinburgh , the company the local council set up to deliver the project, and Edinburgh City Council itself. “During the course of the Princes Street dispute told Mr Mackay, the chairman of TIE, ‘to get it sorted’,” Hardie said.
The report also claimed Swinney was trying to “seek to exert influence in the background” after Transport Scotland walked away from the project in 2007.Responding to the report for the first time since it was published, The Times reports that Swinney said: “On one specific question relating to the mediation process, my candour and integrity is called into question by the chairman. This is simply not supported by the evidence before him.
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