COMMENTING on UK government plans to ban all live exports of livestock, Scotland’s Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said: ‘The UK government appears to be ready to ban all live exports of livestock.
‘So let me be absolutely clear: this is one UK-wide framework the Scottish government will not be participating in. I will not support anything that creates further challenges or difficulty for our farming sector or puts Scottish agriculture at a disadvantage.
‘Any such move would potentially do substantial harm to our quality livestock sector, not least farming in the Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney, as well as trade with Northern Ireland.