Thousands of jobs are at risk in Scotland’s oil and gas industry if the SNP wins a crunch by-election, Kemi Badenoch has claimed.
The Conservative leader highlighted the threat to the North Sea industry unless her party wins the Aberdeen South by-election.
She insisted a Tory victory would send a clear message to the Labour government to lift its ban on new drilling licences.
And she contrasted the focus on the Makerfield by-election – where Labour’s Andy Burnham is seeking to be elected as an MP and could then launch a leadership challenge – saying that vote is about ‘one man’s job’ whereas
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