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Brexit could impact UK ability to tackle climate change, claims SNP minister

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Brexit could "compromise" the UK's ability to tackle climate change, an SNP minister has claimed.Michael Matheson, Holyrood's Net Zero secretary, told a COP26 event in Glasgow the renewable energy sector was already struggling to attract skilled workers due to Brexit restrictions on immigration.

The MSP for Falkirk West said: "An issue across the whole of the UK and Ireland that we need to understand is that Brexit is having an impact that could start to compromise our ability to move at the pace we need to in order to tackle climate change."I've heard over and over again here at this summit about the need for pace and that this is a decisive decade; we heard it from the World Leaders Summit last week as well.COP26 in Glasgow LIVE as Nicola

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