Douglas Alexander: “Our predecessors, the Conservatives, made such a mess of the process of approval, both for Jackdaw and Rosebank, that…”

I’m careful in what I say publicly because we don’t want to make the same mistakes as our Conservative predecessors, which led to the whole programme being delayed as a consequence of judicial challenge.

What Andy wants is a national conversation about Brexit and about our relationship with the European Union.

We are saying the time has come to think broadly about what should be our options.

People in North Lanarkshire, in Fife or in the Highlands know what their communities need better than any minister, whether they sit in London or Edinburgh.