Stephen Flynn
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Oct 9, 2026
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Local communities and their representatives must be given a fair opportunity to understand significant decisions, prepare a response and participate properly in the same press and news cycle.
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Campaigners will now write to the Economy, Tourism and Transport Secretary Stephen Flynn, asking him to visit Campbelltown and meet the committee and local businesses.
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They want to discuss the economic impact of the continued loss of the ferry, alongside disruption and uncertainty at the Rest and Be Thankful, the key road route connecting Argyll with the Central Belt.
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The committee is also demanding an account of what's happened to public funding, which would otherwise have been required to operate the Campbelltown service during the years that it's been suspended.
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Those economic needs have not disappeared because the ferry has disappeared.
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If anything, with the continuing problems at the rest to be thankful, the need for investment in Kintyre's connectivity and economy is now greater than ever.
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Stephen Flynn said, having examined the possible service, vessel and infrastructure options, it's become clear that any reinstatement would present significant challenges in terms of network resilience, vessel availability, affordability, value for money and longer-term sustainability.
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The difficult decision has therefore been taken that the Campbelltown Ferry service should not be reinstated for the summer 2027.
Bernard PonsonbyHOST
Uh, Kemi Badenoch has got the Tories back in the game, but, um, are they an opposition party that's ever going to see government? And what did we make of the mood music at the Tory conference, particularly in relation to tax? If Andy Burnham was taking Labour back to the '70s with his conference speech, well, it's arguable that the Tories have been going back to the '70s with some of their pledges on taxation.
Bernard PonsonbyHOST
And closer to home, in Alex's newspaper this morning, there's a rather interesting little article on the Scottish Transport Secretary, Steven Flynn.
Bernard PonsonbyHOST
Uh, we'll chew over the details of that.
Bernard PonsonbyHOST
But, uh, first of all, uh, from a very, uh, sunny, uh, West London, it's, uh, good morning to Alex.
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Bernard PonsonbyHOST
But I mean, this is all sort of stuff for, for another today.
Bernard PonsonbyHOST
Uh, closer to home, um, uh, to Holyrood, and, uh, you're, uh, uh, as I say, I, I, I'm actually in London and, uh, and I do subscribe to The Times, and I, I was sort of glancing through, uh, the Scottish section on my phone just after midnight last night.
Bernard PonsonbyHOST
You've, you've got a little tale in the paper today, a little story in the paper today about Stephen Flynn
Alex MassieHOST
FlynnYes, Dan Sanderson, the Scottish political editor of The Times.
John CurticeGUEST
But at the moment, I mean, you, you, you both live in Scotland.
John CurticeGUEST
Who, who are the main contenders apart from Stephen Flynn, who- You, you're, you're- I noticed speaking at three events at The Fringe, not just mine ... you said you're about to, you've got two fol- uh, i- interviews to come.
John CurticeGUEST
One's Kemi Badenoch and Stephen Flynn.
John CurticeGUEST
It'll be one of those that, that, that-
Michael CrickGUEST
[laughs]
John CurticeGUEST
Um, I've forgotten what she's now ta- taken on board.
John CurticeGUEST
I mean, she's, she is widely respected amongst those sections of Scottish society that have had to deal with her at a professional level.
John CurticeGUEST
But she doesn't have anything like the profile of Stephen Flynn.
Phil SimHOST
Alex, you were asking the First Minister about the Lucy Letby inquiry that has just published its findings.
Phil SimHOST
So Alex, you were asking the First Minister about why Stephen Flynn, the Transport Secretary, had no idea about a major gas leak.
Lynsey BewsHOST
Oh my goodness.
Lynsey BewsHOST
Now these are Alex Cole-Hamilton's doorsteps, I'm doing the air quotes here, doorsteps-
Ian McKennaNARRATOR
Local authorities in the third sector are working together to deliver these results and to enable every child to have the opportunity to cycle rather than a select few.
Ian McKennaNARRATOR
Stephen Flynn, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport added, I am pleased that through the Scottish Government funding, more schools than ever are delivering BikeAbility Scotland training.
Ian McKennaNARRATOR
In doing so, we are giving young people in communities across the country the skills and confidence to cycle safely on our roads.
Ian McKennaNARRATOR
By enabling more children to travel actively and safely through skills and segregated infrastructure, we are supporting healthier lifestyles, greater independence and our wider ambitions for safer, more sustainable transport for future generations.
Rory HamiltonHOST
Yeah, it's funny that you mentioned the Alexander Dennis jobs because that's my new story this week is that the Scottish government has said it is deeply disappointing that they cannot make a payment under the Scottish government furlough scheme that was set up to try and help workers at Alexander Dennis.
Rory HamiltonHOST
This is under Stephen Flynn's economy brief.
Rory HamiltonHOST
He said that the conditions of the scheme had not been met by Alexander Dennis, the now Canadian-owned bus-making company, and therefore it was right and proper that they weren't able to make any payments to Alexander Dennis.
Rory HamiltonHOST
This really raises questions around how the S&P approached this in the first place.
Laura WebsterHOST
That's really interesting, especially about the kind of two-faced nature.
Laura WebsterHOST
I think you've seen a good example of that in someone like Stephen Flynn, who at Westminster was seen as, as you said, quite ravel-rousing, very direct, and maybe is struggling a little bit with the transition to being a ministerial person who's having to defend the past mistakes or challenges that the Scottish Government has faced.
Laura WebsterHOST
So much of your work obviously Darren focuses on poverty and the kind of consequences of deprivation and one of those things could definitely be Scotland's drug death crisis and just last week we've seen an 11% rise in drug deaths in Scotland, that's 1133 people who lost their lives to drugs last year.
Laura WebsterHOST
I know that this is an issue that has really struck you.
KarenNARRATOR
The total maximum value of the award across the five years is £2,318,000, £980.
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Last month, Economy Secretary Stephen Flynn told Holyrood's Finance and Public Administration Committee that the Scottish Government had identified unauthorised transactions at its Lochaber aluminium smelter.
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The Scottish Government has since confirmed it has asked for a judge for an interdict.
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asked directly whether it had any concerns about continuing to fund a company owned by Mr Gupta while the Scottish Government pursues separate legal action against the GFG Group.
Gillian MackayPANELIST
But this in itself isn't an isolated case.
Gillian MackayPANELIST
Last week, uh, Cabinet Secretary Stephen Flynn said that your government was using every lever at its disposal to stand up against the inhumanity that's being inflicted on Gaza and the West Bank.
Gillian MackayPANELIST
Yet in the days since, The National revealed that a firm whose parent company, who, who has also been listed by the UN, holds a Scottish NHS contract worth tens of millions of pounds.
Gillian MackayPANELIST
If a company has profited from apartheid and genocide, it should not be profiting from public money here in Scotland.
John SwinneyPANELIST
Presiding Officer, in, in giving my answer, I have to make clear that the government at all times must have a legal basis for its actions.
John SwinneyPANELIST
Uh, the government is, is, is forbidden from acting out with the law, so we have got to have a legally sustainable basis for our action.
John SwinneyPANELIST
Um, the comments that Stephen Flynn gave to Parliament in the debate last week were entirely correct, and I endorse them 100%.
John SwinneyPANELIST
On the particular issue that Gillian Mackay raises, uh, it relates to the fact that individual organizations within government must satisfy themselves that the comments made by Mr. Flynn, which are an explanation of the government's position, which I endorse, are being fully applied in all circumstances.
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Our union stands in solidarity with the ASLEF members in Scotland and fully supports the position that they've taken.
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Kevin Lindsay, the Scotland organiser at the train drivers' union ASLEF, has written a letter to the Transport Secretary, Stephen Flynn, in which he hits out at the firm.
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He wrote, These lines constitute war crimes under international law.
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Accordingly, CAF is included in the United Nations database of complicit businesses.
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