A tasty return

Having been toppled as SnP leader at Westminster,

MP ian Blackford, a former investment banker who likes to call himself a ‘simple crofter’, can go back to his smallholding — and his investments. When Commsworld Holdings, where he was non-executive chairman, was sold in 2019, he made around £1.8 million from his 4 per cent shareholding. That’s a lot of neeps and tatties.