Louise Haigh is expected to agree to cut a target for EV sales by about a quarter
The Tories have criticised the Scottish government for posting a message on its X social media account about a Sikh festival at 11am yesterday – as the nation was observing the two-minute silence for Remembrance Sunday. Harriet Cross, the shadow Scottish secretary, said:
It is hard to see their decision to post about a Sikh festival at precisely 11am, at the very moment that people across the country were observing a two-minute silence to honour our war dead, as a coincidence.
There is no reason why they couldn’t have recognised both – not least out of respect to the 83,000 Sikhs killed fighting in both World Wars.
Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, said he plans to introduce new legislation to introduce mandatory human rights due diligence for companies, which will require them to remove products made with forced labour and modern slavery.
He outlined the move in a letter to the Commons business committee, which has been calling for new business safeguards against modern slavery for nearly two years.
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