OGUK 2016: Rudd vows to return to Aberdeen after first visit in more than a year to energy capital

Amber Rudd vowed to return to Aberdeen more regularly as she made her first visit to the UK’s energy capital after more than a year in her ministerial post.

The energy minister insisted she was was not trying to “sugar the pill” with regard to the challenges facing the industry as spoke at the annual Oil and Gas conference at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.

The politician had earlier been criticised by Aberdeen South MP Callum McCaig who said her absence from the city was “unjustifiable”.

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