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 Middleton has also written to Andy Burnham, likely to be the next Prime Minister, calling for him to ditch the windfall tax on North Sea operators. Rosebank is Britain’s largest untapped oil field and Jackdaw is a giant gas field. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Both are licensed, but work was stopped after legal challenges on climate grounds. The decision on whether it can resume at...

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