SNP MSP breaks ranks with John Swinney to back North Sea oil drilling at Rosebank and Jackdaw

An SNP politician has broken ranks with his party with an explicit call for drilling at Britain’s biggest untapped oil field. Jack Middleton, an MSP and a former special adviser to First Minister John Swinney, said he “can’t fathom” how work at the North Sea's Rosebank and Jackdaw fields would breach the country’s climate obligations. Mr...

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