Russell Findlay
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Leader of @ScotTories. (Past job: journalist & author) 🏴🇬🇧
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1 month ago |
dailybusinessgroup.co.uk | Terry Murden |Russell Findlay
Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay is calling for an ‘affordable’ transition to net zero and a commitment to nuclear power as part of the clean energy mix. In a speech on Thursday, Mr Findlay says First Minister John Swinney must be “honest” with the public about the true cost of net zero and that protecting the environment must not mean forcing ever higher bills on workers and families.
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2 months ago |
scotsman.com | David Bol |Russell Findlay
Jamie Green has resigned from the Scottish Conservatives and will sit as an independent MSP. A Scottish Conservative MSP has quit the party, warning Russell Findlay is bringing forward a “Reform-light agenda that appeals to the worst of our society”. In a scathing resignation letter, West of Scotland MSP, Jamie Greene, has “taken the difficult decision” to quit the Tories at Holyrood “with immediate effect”.
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2 months ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Simon Johnson |Russell Findlay
The report also highlighted a "serious breakdown" in relationships among staff and management at the board, Scotland's largest, warning this was likely to be harming patient care. It said there was a "strong perception" among medics that targets and budgets were given greater priority than "the quality and safety of care". The working environment at the hospital was said to be "brutal" and "inhumane".
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2 months ago |
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Ben Borland |Russell Findlay
The rollout of body-worn video cameras for Police Scotland officers finally got underway in Dundee today. The service is the second largest in the UK after the Met but is the only one not to have the kit as standard equipment. Last year, Scots Tory leader Russell Findlay said the old Grampian Police had first trialled body-worn video in 2012 and described the delays as “unacceptable.” “It’s been a delay of more than 10 years,” he told MSPs last September.
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2 months ago |
heraldscotland.com | Russell Findlay
‘Ghost children’ are being allowed to drop out with few prospects beyond permanent reliance on the SNP’s ever-growing range of state benefits (Image: Getty) Many a puffed-up Scottish nationalist is wont to brag that our folk are innately more virtuous than others which is often a code for our English friends and neighbours.
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Children with cancer are being denied free education in a Scottish NHS hospital … because they attend private schools. This is cruel, spiteful and politically motivated. My colleagues @CraigWHoy1 @Miles4Lothian @SueJWebber l @CouncillorCowdy are on the case 👊 https://t.co/IXyNLoYwQb
The radical policies needed to achieve SNP net zero targets are madness 👇 #FMQs https://t.co/3kAsM5VaJR
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"Reform currently has candidates that are pro-independence, anti-monarchy and apologists for Vladimir Putin." That's what Thomas Kerr had to say about Reform just last year. A vote for Reform is a vote for the SNP. https://t.co/gSOfmv9duM