Swinney’s message to trade unions: Scottish industry must not be ‘hollowed out’

First Minister John Swinney addresses the Scottish Trades Union Congress conference in Dundee (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

Key industries in Scotland cannot be allowed to be “hollowed out”, First Minister John Swinney said, as he pledged his Government would “play its part” in preventing such an outcome.

The SNP leader used a speech to trade union leaders in Dundee to welcome action by the Labour Government at Westminster to step in and keep the the British Steel plant at Scunthorpe open.