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Scotland's deposit return recycling scheme was "single-handedly undermined" by former Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, ex-minister Lorna Slater has claimed. The plans collapsed in 2023 after a row ...

Jim Slater started investing around 1959, before the internet and before personal computers. The idea of backtesting an investment strategy was out of the question.

Waste firm Biffa said Lorna Slater should have been up front about the risk posed by the internal market rules to the failed deposit return scheme.