Ross, Jack, Scottish Office ministers Donald Cameron and John Lamont, and a “whole raft” of other Scots Tory figures refused to appear on the BBC’s Sunday Show while legal migration was to be discussed.The Sunday Show had reached out to Jack and his party colleagues as it focused on the impact of UK-wide immigration rules on Scotland.
Houston said the problems were particularly acute in the north west Highlands, going on: “That's where we've seen some of the biggest issues across the whole of the UK in terms of labour shortages and the scale of the shrinkage in the size of the workforce.“Scotland and the UK isn't as good at that as many other European countries who spend much larger sums of money on balanced regional economic development.
“To give you an indication of how they're struggling, over 3000 hospitality venues closed last year, which is a huge, huge number, and Scotland is disproportionately affected by some of the decisionsshadow Scotland Office minister, refused to back anything other than a one-size-fits-all approach to UK immigration – despite experts saying the challenges from such a policy were more acute in Scotland.
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