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Labour throwing community under ‘Manchester United team bus’
A general view outside of Old Trafford, home of Manchester United, March 11, 2025
THE Labour government’s billion pound handout to Jim Ratcliffe’s Old Trafford redevelopment plan is a “betrayal of workers in Grangemouth” according to local Scottish Greens MSP Gillian Mackay, who grew up just 200 yards from the refinery.
Rachel Reeves pledged support for the project, with up to £1 billion of taxpayers’ cash set aside to fund the tycoon’s vanity project in Salford.
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