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GB Energy branded a ‘sham’ in heated Holyrood exchanges
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to Brechfa Forest West Wind Farm, a clean energy site in Pencader, South Wales, August 20, 2024

GB ENERGY is a “sham” and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is “taking my constituents for fools,” a Tory MSP has said amid heated exchanges at Holyrood.

Conservative energy spokesman Douglas Lumsden made the remarks on Thursday evening as the Scottish Parliament debated legislative consent to its UK counterpart’s Great British Energy Bill.

The consent, allowing Westminster legislation to operate in areas that are normally devolved, passed by 88 votes to 28, but not before fierce exchanges on the British government’s plans for a green energy investment company to be headquartered in Aberdeen.

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