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Katrine Bussey

RARE PHOTOS: Swinney pledges ban on conversion practices if westminster fails to act | Rare Historical Photos

John Swinney said a re-elected SNP government would introduce a ban on conversion therapy in the first year of the next Holyrood term – if Westminster fails to bring in a UK wide ban (Jane Barlow/PA) -

John Swinney has pledged action to end the “abhorrent practice” of conversion therapy – saying if Westminster fails to introduce a UK wide ban a re-elected SNP government would act within the first year of  the new Holyrood term.

The Scottish Government is continuing to talk to the Labour Government about the possibility of a ban on such practices across the whole of the UK.

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