What awaits them, and their newly appointed Cabinet over the coming days, is a formidable array of foreign and domestic policy challenges. Presumably over the days ahead we’ll begin to learn the contours if not the final detail of the Scottish Government’s emergency budget review. Meanwhile, a new industry leadership group is now working with public finance minister Tom Arthur to implement the recently published Scottish retail strategy. It is why last week the Scottish Retail Consortium submitted a new paper, Weathering the storm: tackling the costs crisis, and recommendations to the Scottish Government. David Lonsdale is director of the Scottish Retail Consortium

Source: The Herald September 05, 2022 04:07 UTC