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John Swinney has been forced into insisting that he opposes terrorism after standing shoulder to shoulder with Sinn Fein at his ‘separatist summit’.
The First Minister yesterday came under fire for working with Sinn Fein on the push to break up the UK despite the failure of the party’s leaders to denounce IRA terrorism.
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Minister → see → terrorism
He said he has always expressed sympathy with victims of terrorism and insisted that he unreservedly condemns all terrorist attacks.
But the SNP leader failed to call on Sinn Fein to also denounce terrorism during First Minister’s Questions, where he was criticised for ‘distraction and division’ rather than focusing on his ‘day job’.
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he → say → job
Following the exchanges, Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said: ‘Swinney was forced to condemn terrorism but is clearly unwilling to call upon his new nationalist bedfellows to also condemn the murderous IRA.’
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Swinney → follow → IRA
Mr Swinney was questioned for the first time at Holyrood on his decision to appear alongside Sinn Fein’s vice president Michelle O’Neill and president Mary Lou McDonald, as well as Plaid Cymru’s leader Rhun ap Iorwerth, at an event in Cardiff promoting independence in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Swinney → question → Scotland
It follows concerns raised by a group representing terror victims that striking a deal with Sinn Fein risks glorifying violence.
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striking → follow → violence
Mr Findlay said the First Minister’s ‘new friends’ in Sinn Fein have never denounced IRA terrorism and ‘still justify the massacre of innocent men, women and children including Scottish soldiers’.
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friends → say → soldiers
John Swinney was questioned for the first time at Holyrood on his decision to appear alongside Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill at a summit in Cardiff
He also highlighted that Mr Swinney has previously come under fire from families of victims of IRA terror by saying people need to ‘move on’ from the Troubles yet has not accepted the ‘decisive’ result of the 2014 independence referendum.
The First Minister said he has ‘always expressed my sympathy to the victims of terrorism’, and added: ‘I unreservedly condemn terrorism and any terrorist acts and I always have done.’
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I → question → terrorism
He said he ‘accepted in good grace the outcome of the referendum in 2014’, claimed it was ‘completely fatuous’ to say he has refused to move on, and insisted he intended to hold a referendum in the current parliamentary term.
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he → say → term
After FMQs, Mr Swinney refused to answer questions from the Mail about his decision to work with Sinn Fein on independence, saying he has ‘government business to get on with’.
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he → refuse → business
Asked why Mr Swinney is content with campaigning alongside Sinn Fein despite the party’s failure to denounce IRA terrorism, the First Minister’s official spokesman said: ‘Sinn Fein are part of the political process and there is a First Minister in Northern Ireland who is from Sinn Fein and the leader of the opposition in the Republic of Ireland is from Sinn Fein.’
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leader → ask → Fein
Reform UK’s Scottish leader Malcolm Offord also condemned Mr Swinney’s ‘taxpayer-funded wee pretendy summit’ in Cardiff, accused him of ‘distraction and division’ and urged him to ‘get focused on the day job’.
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leader → condemn → job
The First Minister said: ‘By the end of this decade, one million individuals in Scotland will not have been asked their opinion in a referendum on the question of independence.
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individuals → say → independence
‘That’s one of the reasons why it is so important that the people of this country have the chance to decide their own future and to opt for independence.’
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people → ’ → independence
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