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MURMURS reverberating through the hallways of Holyrood that Labour MSP Tom McCabe covets the Enterprise portfolio of outgoing Liberal Democrat MSP Jim Wallace could be closer to the mark than one would think. Since Wallace announced that he would be stepping down as Scottish LibDem leader and giving up his enterprise and Deputy First Minister posts to boot, speculation has been rife about a successor for party leader.
But whoever wins the top LibDem job is not guaranteed to also be capped as minister of enterprise and lifelong learning. The rumour mill has been churning that the Labour camp of the coalition wants to install one of its own brethren on the economic development beat and that McCabe is jockeying for position. Given Scotland's lacklustre productivity performance against the rest of the UK and many other competing Western economies, you would think that McCabe would be running in the opposite direction.See the full content of this document
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Business Diary How Enterprising Is Tom Mccabe?
But the minister for finance and public service reform couldn't keep the smile from his face when he was cornered by the Sunday Herald outside a conference in Edin...
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