EXCLUSIVE: Two MSPs used a Labour group meeting to express concern about the mooted policy
Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from Labour MSPs over plans to ban new North Sea oil and gas developments.
Marra and McNeill, who hold the finance and justice portfolios, spoke out about the plans during a meeting earlier this week. Both MSPs are members of the GMB and Marra represents the North East where many oil workers live. "Labour’s plan to switch off the taps now would endanger both of those things, while threatening to destroy the very skills we need to make the Just Transition which is necessary to protect the future of the planet.
“Even the SNP are now beginning to realise how misguided and damaging that ban is – though they daren’t say so, in case it offends their Green partners. “Grabbing the headlines is easy, developing a serious plan for more renewable energy is not,” she said.
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