Tourist hotspots and wind farm contract mean promising future

BOTH of Dundee’s MPs said they are buoyed as they look ahead to the future – and insist Dundee has the potential to get even better.

Stewart Hosie and Chris Law have highlighted tourist hotspots like V&A Dundee, coupled with the recent award of Forth Ports wind farm contract.

About £40 million will be invested into the Port of Dundee over the next three years following the contract win, while the V&A i s closing i n on a million visitors while still in its infancy.

Mr Hosie said: “There has been big progress and going into the future we need to ensure that politicians, the council and organisations get to work together.

“We have seen successes with the wind farm contract and the V&A, for example.”

Mr Law said: “There are 5,000 new jobs that have come to Dundee, particularly in hospitality and not just i n the city centre.

“The V&A i s close to getting its millionth visitor and it’s only been open since September 2018.

“As the city continues to develop and wealth comes in, of course that will go out into the communities and we hope to see that very soon.”

Both men were at the V&A on Saturday along with their Westminster colleagues as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon congratulated her successful general election candidates.

Dundee hosted all 48 elected members as they celebrated their performance.

Ms Sturgeon said: “It was a watershed election on Thursday and it’s very clear that Scotland wants a different future to the one chosen by much of the rest of the UK.

“Scotland showed i ts opposition to Boris Johnson and the Tories, said no again to Brexit, and made very clear that we want the future of Scotland, whatever that turns out to be, to be decided by people who live here.

“You can’t bludgeon a nation into accepting your view of the world when it is made very clear that it doesn’t have that view of the world.

“It couldn’t really be any clearer that Scotland doesn’t want a Boris Johnson government.”