Today I challenged the SNP Government on massive delays to the A96 dualling - particularly the Nairn bypass.
The response of the Transport Secretary was hyper-partisan, totally flippant and ultimately contemptuous to local people.
Fergus Ewing has been a stalwart on the A9/A96 roads. I will do my best to follow his example in always standing up for Highlands.
@murdo_fraser@JohnSwinney@ReformUKScot You are out of touch and now out of time. 10 failed years in Opposition. Utterly squandered. With ample opportunity to articulate an alternative narrative to the SNP. No ambition in ever winning an election, content to be a permanent opposition.
Holyrood is currently debating the future of energy - including oil and gas.
Reform's 17 MSPs are in the Chamber, the Tories have put up just 3. 🤔
There's only one champion for Aberdeen and the wider North. It isn’t the party of the hated Energy Profits Levy.
This is perhaps the most moronic comment I have heard on energy yet!
Reform by backing oil & gas and by backing Rosebank/Jackdaw and new drilling is somehow going to “drain the north-east of its energy wealth for the benefit of people in England."
But the SNP by still clinging on to the presumption against new oil and gas and still not fully backing new projects like Jackdaw and Rosebank or new drilling licences is somehow good for the area.
Clown comments from a clueless candidate who in a sane world should not be anywhere near Westminster.
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Delighted to have been entrusted by @Malcolm_Offord with this crucial job as Opposition Whip. We will use all parliamentary levers at our disposal to hold the SNP Government to account.
Questions not being published in advance is the simplest reform available to the new PO and the one which could have the biggest impact - just so we don't hear two people read out scripts on Qs 4-7...
The Presiding Officer has informed Parliament of changes to business.
Kenneth Gibson MSP has made key changes including:
🟣 FMQs now twice a week
🟣 Questions for FMQs will NOT be published in advance
🟣 More General Questions
Kenny Gibson is the new Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Great news - he's got some strong ideas on how to strengthen the place and there's no world in which that can be described as a pro-government stitch-up
Is it any wonder that the Labour Party is dying in Scotland, when they go out of their way to raise everyone's energy and fuel bills, and destroy some of our best-paying, high-skilled industries?
After a very long night at the count, I am absolutely delighted that the people of the Highlands and Islands, my home, have put their trust in me and Reform to represent their interests in the Scottish Parliament.