Enacting laws won’t replace funding or support for crucial alterations to services, says Scott McNab Alex Salmond was in his element regaling global leaders a few years back about Scotland's “world leading” drive to tackle global warming with legally binding targets. They should be copying Scotland's example, he proclaimed on a visit to Copenhagen in 2009 which was hosting the UN Climate Change Conference. But signing up to legislation is one thing, Salmond warned. The hard part is actually pushing through change. The current SNP regime should think on that. Whatever's going wrong in Scotland – homelessness, NHS failings, underperformance in schools – the magic wand being flourished by...
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