Grangemouth should be a home for the energy industries of the future, Scottish Labour’s deputy leader has said after Sir Keir Starmer pledged to work to safeguard jobs there.
Dame Jackie Baillie said her party and the SNP would collaborate as they tried to ensure the long-term future of the site.
Hundreds of jobs are thought to be at risk after the owner Petroineos — a joint venture between PetroChina and Ineos — announced that the oil refinery at Grangemouth would be shut after spring next year, before then becoming an import terminal for finished fuels.
Starmer and John Swinney, the first minister, discussed the issue when they met on Sunday during the Labour leader’s first trip north of the border as prime minister.
Sir Keir Starmer and John Swinney discussed the issue of Grangemouth, which the former said was of great concern to him
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