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As the General Election campaign moves into its closing stages, observers could be forgiven for stifling a yawn. After their most accident-prone campaign in living memory, the Tories are now circling the electoral plughole and will probably be relieved when it’s all over. Labour are on the home straight with success all but inevitable, a win of historic proportions on the cards, but their campaign too has been fairly muted, even dull, missing much sense of the hope and optimism that accompanied their victory in 1997. It doesn’t matter too much – a win’s a win – and in fact, modest expectations will probably work to their advantage once they have taken their places on the Government benches in the House of Commons.

Geoff recently chaired and moderated a roundtable discussion in Aberdeen with First Minister John Swinney at Energy Transition Zone Ltd’s W-Zero-1 building on the importance of the North East of Scotland’s role in driving sustainable economic growth for the regional and wider Scottish and U.K economies. The roundtable included senior business leaders representing the region’s Life Sciences, Digital, Energy, Academic, Cultural, Food, Drink & Agriculture sectors as the First Minister made his first visit to the City since taking office. Attendees had the opportunity to raise both the opportunities and challenges their respective organisation’s face and all were steadfast in their long term commitment to contribute to the region’s continued success...