SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The SNP's Westminster Leader has said he believes his party can still win the General Election in Scotland
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has accused Labour of planning to divert £20billion of tax receipts from Scotland’s oil wealth to build nuclear power plants in England.
He is understood to have been one of the loudest voices calling for Humza Yousaf to tear up the Bute House Agreement and sack Green MSPs Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater from government - a move which ultimately cost Yousaf his job. He went on to accuse an incoming Labour administration at Westminster of planning to sacrifice tens of thousands of Scottish oil industry jobs in coming years while using North Sea tax revenues to fund energy jobs in England.
“So if you decimate the industry, then you don’t have the just transition. Labour say they will create GB Energy, but nobody has a clue what it means. “I’m very confident because we have the most popular and the most trusted politician in Scotland leading our party in John Swinney. “So there’s a clear dividing line between what we stand for, what we believe, and what the Labour Party stand for and believes in, and the public are going to have to decide who is putting Scotland’s interests first.
“So we could quite comfortably in a Westminster context be the conscience of the Labour Party, and in doing so put Scotland first, because that’s what we do. It’s our raison d’etre. And that’s something that the Labour Party are very uncomfortable with.” Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.
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