Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
SNP minister Mairi McAllan says “too few” migrants are coming to Scotland, and that migration is “good and necessary” for the economy.
She was speaking on BBC Scotland’s The Sunday Show as part of a Holyrood election debate on immigration with representatives from six political parties.
But Reform’s Thomas Kerr said immigration had pushed the system to breaking point, with other parties were split on the issue.
The recent surge in fuel prices due to the war in Iran has spurred demand for electric vehicles around the world, and Chinese car makers are making the most of the opportunity.
China is the world’s top producer of EVs, and while its manufacturers remain largely shut out of the major car market of the United States, they are benefiting from an uptick in interest and orders via dealerships across Asia and elsewhere.
BYD, which overtook Tesla as the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles last year and is expanding aggressively overseas, is at the centre of this shift in focus.
Read more on the BBC website.
One of the UK’s largest chicken producers and a water company will be in the High Court on Monday accused of polluting the rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk.
More than 4,500 people who live or work near the rivers along the Welsh-English border have signed up take part in what’s being seen as a landmark case against Avara Foods and Welsh Water.
Their lawyers say it’s the biggest case ever brought in the UK over environmental pollution in terms of the number of claimants and its geographical spread.
President Trump praised the “brave” King for pressing on with his visit to America as calls mounted in Washington for an inquiry into security failures that allowed a third assassination attempt in less than two years.
Trump and members of his cabinet including JD Vance, the vice-president, were the targets of a lone gunman who tried to rush security gates yards from a hotel ballroom hosting them on Saturday night, according to an alleged manifesto left by the suspect.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a teacher from California, was arrested uninjured after an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents. In a message sent to his family shortly before the attack, he mocked the “insane” security lapses that had enabled him to bring two guns, ammunition and knives to a room in the Washington Hilton hotel without his luggage being screened. Allen is expected to appear in court on Monday.
Angela Rayner’s allies are “hopeful” that an investigation into her tax affairs will conclude before May’s local elections.
The former deputy prime minister is understood to be weeks away from the conclusion of an HM Revenue & Customs investigation into her tax affairs, paving the way for a return to frontline politics — and a shot at winning the Labour leadership.
Rayner enjoys significant support within the party but has been awaiting the findings of the HMRC review into her failure to pay the correct stamp duty on the purchase of a flat in Hove, a row that led to her resignation from the government.
Read the full story in The Times.
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