Keir Starmer’s party have allocated £1bn in public funds to support the Manchester football club – five times the funding it has pledged to help find a future for the closing Grangemouth oil refinery.
On Tuesday, Manchester United – which like Grangemouth is part-owned by the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe – unveiled its plans for a new stadium and grounds.
The BBC reported that the news came despite the club owing in excess of £1bn in debt. Chief executive Omar Berrada said he was “quite confident we’ll find a way to finance the stadium”.
The Scottish Greens questioned why the UK Government was handing Ratcliffe’s debt-ridden club £1bn while only allocating £200m for Grangemouth.
MSP Gillian Mackay,…
