SO FAR, our latest CabSec Fergus Ewing has done much listening to a wide range of views as he gets to grips with his new brief. Indeed, he must be fast approaching information overload.
However, he now has to quickly make some decisions in matters where he is unencumbered by the dead hand of Defra interference.
A priority must be to rectify the mistakes made when Scotland’s ‘greening’ decisions were made. His ear was well and truly chewed on a whole raft of such matters this week by NFU Scotland. It is to be hoped he was listening!
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