Scotland's hospitality firms face being wiped out by Nicola Sturgeon's "illogical" five-tier lockdown system unless her government stops ignoring a blueprint that could save them, industry leaders said on Thursday. Stephen Montgomery, of the Scottish Hospitality Group (SHG), told The Daily Telegraph that the SNP administration must start heeding proposals to help pubs and restaurants stay solvent, which the industry presented on Monday last week. None were included in Ms Sturgeon's five levels of restrictions, unveiled three days later, and he expressed frustration that a minister with whom the industry held talks appeared not to have even read them. Mr Montgomery and Nic Wood, whose Signature group includes 22 pubs, warned the SNP government did not understand the crisis facing the industry or that "there will be nothing left" if ministers do not give them a "seat at the table" with input into key decisions.