Douglas Alexander: “I think the First Minister needs to be a little cautious not to keep throwing out these statements when the reality is…”

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

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.

Our predecessors, the Conservatives, made such a mess of the process of approval, both for Jackdaw and Rosebank, that they ended up in court.

So I’m afraid it’s simply not true to say GB Energy has done nothing.