Sunak’s plans to rebuild economy

CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak has unveiled plans to ‘rebuild’ Scotland’s economy after Covid-19.

Mr Sunak told the Scottish Tory conference the UK Treasury had delivered some £13.3billion of cash to the Scottish Government since the pandemic began. He said his Budget would help ‘support the UK’s recovery’ and insisted that Scotland would play an important part in this.

He said the UK Government was ‘investing £34million into the North East, to support the transition to green technology and make Aberdeen the world leader in subsea engineering’.

The Chancellor also highlighted Westminster’s freezing of alcohol duties, saying this was ‘benefiting Scotch whisky, and the 11,000 jobs it supports’.

Mr Sunak also said the Conservative government was accelerating growth deals in Ayrshire, Argyll and Bute and Falkirk, and freezing fuel duty.