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Scotland’s first minister John Swinney reveals summit plan to fight far-right menace as he accuses Nigel Farage of being ‘confederate to Russian agenda’

By Editorial Board Published February 26, 2025 6 Min Read
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Scotland’s first minister John Swinney reveals summit plan to fight far-right menace as he accuses Nigel Farage of being ‘confederate to Russian agenda’

Scotland’s first minister has accused Nigel Farage of being “an accomplice to the Russian agenda” as he revealed plans for a summit to “draw a line in the sand” to counter the rise of far-right politics.

John Swinney stated he “accepts and understands that people are angry” however is fearful that in response to the discord some are discovering “attractiveness in the politics of Farage and the far right”.

Talking at a press convention at Bute Home in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the SNP chief stated: “And I think that’s the wrong choice.

“And I am merely making the purpose immediately that it is essential that these of us who’re repulsed by the politics of Farage and the far proper come collectively to offer the management and stress the significance of the values that we maintain pricey about our society.”

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Reform UK – led by Mr Farage – is surging within the polls in Scotland with a number of surveys suggesting it might choose up seats at subsequent yr’s Holyrood election.

Mr Swinney singled out Mr Farage, saying: “There is a very live and active threat to our security from the aggression of Russia and I think Farage is an accomplice to the Russian agenda and an apologist for the Russian agenda.

“Farage has been for years main the argument which has been hostile to migration and I believe that’s based mostly on a basically racist view of the world – I reject that. I believe migration is a bonus for Scotland.”

 Nigel Farage addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
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Reform UK has been contacted for remark.

On Tuesday, the Scottish authorities’s price range handed its closing stage at Holyrood.

Mr Swinney had warned if the price range had didn’t cross it might have served the pursuits of the far proper and “leave devolution dangerously exposed”.

The primary minister stated “storm clouds are gathering – we can all see them” as he introduced plans for a summit of political leaders and civic society to sort out the surge in far-right help.

The gathering – as a result of be held on the finish of April – will characteristic representatives from Scotland’s church buildings, commerce unions, charities and parliamentary events.

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney speaks during a press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh, as he sets out progress on the delivery of his four priorities, inviting people and organisations from across the country to continue to work in partnership with the Scottish Government on the issues that matter most to the people of Scotland. Picture date: Wednesday February 26, 2025.

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Mr Swinney hopes all these concerned will “work together, for decency, democracy and respect”.

He stated: “It is time to come together to draw a line in the sand. To set out who we are and what we believe in, because a politics of fear is a politics of despair.

“It’s a politics that can divide us and destroy a lot of what we maintain pricey.

“I want us to be ready for whatever this age of uncertainty throws at us, for us to be united in the face of the undoubted challenges that lie ahead.

“It’s a mobilisation of mainstream Scotland that delivered our parliament 1 / 4 of a century in the past.

“And I have no doubt it is by mobilising mainstream Scotland that we can protect those things that we care about the most, those things that are most important to all of us today.”

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In the course of the press convention, his first at Bute Home as first minister, Mr Swinney additionally stated the UK authorities’s resolution to chop the international help price range to extend defence spending was “short-sighted”.

Sir Keir Starmer has defended the choice to slash growth help help from 0.5% of gross nationwide revenue to 0.3% within the subsequent two years.

The prime minister has sacrificed the help funding to bolster Britain’s battle chest from 2.3% to 2.5% by 2027.

In response, Mr Swinney stated: “I understand the importance the prime minister attaches to increasing expenditure to ensure that we can deal with the threats that we face as a society, but I think the choices that are being made about slashing international aid are the wrong choices.

“I believe they’re short-sighted.”

He added: “The ideas of worldwide help are about attempting to handle among the elementary points about inequality inside our world, which if we do not handle them via worldwide growth help, these points will come again to be a problem and a problem for us.”

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