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

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Scottish freeports deal splits snp and greens - What They Never Told You

Boris Johnson at Rosyth shipyard
Boris Johnson at Rosyth shipyard on Monday. Rosyth is expected to bid for a freeport. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

A deep split has emerged between the SNP and its coalition partners, the Scottish Greens, over Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to back the foundation of low-tax freeports in Scotland.

The Scottish government signed a £52m deal with the UK government to approve two low-regulation freeports in Scotland just as Boris Johnson arrived on Monday at Rosyth in Fife, an industrial site expected to bid to host one.

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