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Nationalise Grangemouth,’ Labour MP says
A view of the Grangemouth petrochemical plant in Grangemouth, September 12, 2024

SCOTLAND’S last remaining oil and gas refinery must be nationalised, Grangemouth’s newly elected Labour MP Brian Leishman says.

The site was publicly earmarked for closure by owner PetroIneos, a joint venture between PetroChina and notorious union-basher Sir Jim Radcliffe’s industrial empire Ineos, last year. 

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