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Westminster is “sleepwalking into the deindustrialisation of Scotland”, Stephen Flynn has warned, as he clashed with a minister over the closure of ExxonMobil’s Fife plant.

The SNP Commons leader criticised the Government’s decision not to step in, as the Fife Ethylene Plant winds down.

Energy and business minister Chris McDonald indicated the Government is not prepared to keep the site open.

ExxonMobil announced its ethylene manufacturing plant, which produces the base material for many plastics, is expected to close in February, after having “considered variou

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