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Politics
Katrine Bussey

John Swinney urges all parties to ‘recommit’ to action on climate change

Scottish First Minister John Swinney wants parties to ‘recommit’ to efforts to tackle climate change (Jane Barlow/PA) -

Scotland’s First Minister is urging politicians from all parties to “recommit” to tackling climate change – insisting the issue is “one of the greatest global challenges of our time”.

Hitting out at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, John Swinney will say there is a need to “ignore the dangerous rhetoric growing on the right” and continue with efforts to tackle rising temperatures across the globe.

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