Ferries fiasco fixer paid £790k a year by Scottish Government as opposition call for probe
Ferguson Marine shipyard.Gloucester-based businessman Tim Hair was handed the astronomical £2565-a-day deal by shamed ex-finance secretary Derek Mackay two years ago.It is likely to make him the UK’s highest paid public sector fatcat, on almost six times First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s £151,000 salary.He was brought in after the Government nationalised the shipyard in the face of spiralling costs for two ferries.At the time, Mackay – who was forced to resign after sending inappropriate text messages to a schoolboy – said public control would deliver “the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer”.But opposition politicians have reacted furiously to our revelations on Hair’s earnings.Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said: “It has