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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sirin Kale

‘Everything Boris Johnson says is just slogans’: the 14-year-old school climate striker fighting to save the oceans

Finlay Pringle
Finlay Pringle in his home town of Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Climate activist Finlay Pringle doesn’t mince his words. Boris Johnson? “I hate him,” says the 14-year-old from Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands, before correcting himself. “OK, in polite terms, I severely disagree with him. He’s like the British version of Trump. When he speaks, he sounds like an Oompa-Loompa. Everything is just slogans.”

And his future? “I’m angry,” he says. “I’ve been cheated out of my future. People are dying from climate change. The Australian wildfires claimed lives. People in the Maldives will lose their homes.”

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