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PM's silence on Grangemouth redundancies unacceptable, says Leishman
Labour MP Brian Leishman, centre, at a protest to keep Grangemouth going

A LABOUR MP has slammed the Prime Minister’s silence on shared services redundancies at Grangemouth as “unacceptable.”

Petroineos’s decision to pay 18 months’ wages in compensation to workers set to lose their jobs with the closure of  Scotland’s only oil refinery later this year was trumpeted by Sir Keir Starmer at Scottish Labour conference last month.

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