Like her aquatic namesake, Nicola Sturgeon is a long-lived but slippery creature. The Scottish First Minister has seized on COP26 as a chance to push her separatist agenda — conveniently forgetting the fact it was the UK government which won the UN summit bid and selected Glasgow as host city. Just yesterday, she was relishing the chance to act the part of statesman on the global stage, telling Sky News:
I hope we can all put egos aside over the next few days and just work together to get the outcome we need. That’s what I am committed to doing. I’ve said that to the Prime Minister, to Alok Sharma. We’ve all got a big responsibility here and if ever there is a time and a moment in history for everybody to put their political interests, their egos to one side and focus.
Unfortunately that talk of setting egos aside came just hours after a full-page advert was splashed across newspapers in Scotland.
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