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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

UNBELIEVABLE: Ministers need to be bolder over scotland s land reforms say campaigners - The Untold Story

Scottish border hills near Langholm Wrae Hill looking up Ewes Water and A7 towards Hawick.
The government-funded Scottish Land Fund supported the purchase of the Langholm estate in the Scottish borders. Photograph: South West Images Scotland/Alamy

Land reform campaigners have accused Scottish ministers of “losing their radical edge” by failing to properly confront Scotland’s unequal land ownership system.

A paper from the Jimmy Reid Foundation alleges there is a significant gap between the Scottish government’s rhetoric on land reform and the reality, as only a tiny fraction of rural land is in community ownership.

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