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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

Swinney seeks to ‘bring people together’ following debate over gender rights

John Swinney said he is looking to ‘bring people together’ following a divisive debate of women’s rights and those of trans people (Jane Barlow/PA) -

Scotland’s First Minister has told how he wants to “bring people together in unity” in the wake of the “difficulty and hurt” that has been caused by row over single sex spaces.

John Swinney accepted that a “tremendous amount of difficulty and hurt” had been caused to “all sides”.

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