French beef offer disastrous
17 December 1999
French beef offer ‘disastrous’
ACCEPTING a French offer to take Scotch beef would have been “disastrous” for Scottish producers, the Scottish Executives first minister Donald Dewar said yesterday (Thursday).
Mr Dewar was responding to a jibe from Dennis Canavan, the independent member for Falkirk West.
Mr Canavan called Mr Dewar a puppet who had not been consulted by Prime Minister Tony Blair about the offer from his French counterpart.
This follows French prime minister Lionel Jospins offer take grass-fed, primarily Scottish, beef as a possible solution to the French ban on British beef.
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