Swinney calls for ‘mainstream’ unity against right-wing climate crisis denial
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to the Harland and Wolff Methil yard site in Leven, Fife, following the recent takeover by Spanish company Navantia, February 5, 2025
SCOTLAND’S “mainstream” must unite to tackle climate change in the face of an “ever-stronger pushback” from the political right, the First Minister said today.
SNP leader John Swinney made the remarks as US President Donald Trump vowed to clamp down on what he termed the “climate extremism” of driving down carbon emissions, and Reform UK MP Richard Tice pledged to “undo the effects of net zero” with a windfall tax on renewable energy.
Mr Swinney condemned the “ever-stronger pushback against the very idea of a climate crisis and the very need to act.”
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