Patrick Harvie has today announced – and not a moment too soon – that he will step down as co-leader of the Scottish Greens this summer. It will end his tenure as Holyrood’s longest-serving party chief after he clung onto the top job for almost 17 years. To mark the occasion, Mr S has compiled a list of Harvie’s worst moments to date…
Harvie’s net-zero hypocrisy
The Scottish Green co-leader has always been quick to take a pop at the Tories – even when he risked looking rather hypocritical himself. Raging that former Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak had a ‘damn nerve’ to claim that delays to climate targets would benefit households, the eco-zealot took aim at a range of issues – including Sunak’s delays to the phase out of gas boilers and the ex-MP’s pledge to push back the ban on petrol and diesel vehicles to 2035. ‘We are so angry!’ Harvie exploded at the time.
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