(775) TRUMP AND HOLYROOD LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE INQUIRY
On 13 March 2008 the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee published a highly critical report on the Scottish Government’s handling of the Trump Aberdeenshire golf resort affair (see previously Nos 723, 732, 741, 757, 771). The eight-member Committee has three SNP members, three Labour and one apiece from the Conservatives and LibDems. The SNP members dissented from several of the findings, the most spectacular of which was the conclusion that First Minister Alex Salmond’s handling of the affair had been cavalier”