‘Certain inevitability’ to Grangemouth closure when Labour won power – minster

Mr Shanks said Labour “moved every possible option forward” to do what it could to save the refinery, but added: “The truth is, we were far too far down the line with the Grangemouth process to really change the outcome and as regrettable as that is, and it genuinely is, and I’ve met the workers on a number of occasions, I know how significant the impact is on them and their families, there was a certain inevitability about the outcome by the point in which we came into Government.”