GB ENERGY might deliver funding for cash-starved public services one day, Anas Sarwar has claimed.

In a visit to Harland and Wolff’s steel fabrication yard in Methil, Fife, alongside shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray, the leader of Scottish Labour said such sites stand to benefit from millions in state investment through the new energy company Labour has pledged to found and back with £8.3 billion in finance over the next parliament.

“There is huge potential in this site, for example, to ramp up that supply chain and that infrastructure, just like there is in other parts of the country as well,” Mr Sarwar said.