The tax hikes imposed on Scotland's greatest industry by Labour and Tory MPs at Westminster has driven down sales, brought down tax revenue, and placed enormous pressures on distilleries across Scotland.
Commenting on whisky duty and job cuts in Scotland.
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Andy Burnham must, as a priority, scrap the Labour Party’s national insurance tax hike, which has destroyed jobs and cost Scotland’s businesses huge sums of money.
The Labour Party promised to back Scotland's whisky sector 'to the hilt' before the election, but instead Scottish Labour MPs waltzed through the voting lobbies to hammer the industry - our greatest export deserves better.
If Andy Burnham wants to deliver growth in every postcode, then he should start by cutting Labour's crippling tax on Scotland’s premier export and I've written to him urging him to do just that.
Tory politicians proposing to force nuclear power plants on Scotland should tell us who among them wants one of these extortionate, wasteful, and unnecessary nuclear plants built in their constituency.
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