Overview
- Polanski, speaking in Glasgow on Thursday, said he would vote for independence if he were Scottish and called for a new referendum, while rebuking UK minister Wes Streeting for ruling one out.
- He visited to boost Scottish Green candidates before the May 7 Holyrood election even though he is not on the ballot and the Scottish party runs separately from the Greens in England and Wales.
- He cited a “Green surge” with membership now at about 225,000 in England and Wales and more than 10,000 in the Scottish Greens.
- Scottish Labour’s Jackie Baillie called his defence views “deeply irresponsible,” warning that scrapping Trident at Faslane, the Clyde base that hosts the UK’s nuclear submarines, could threaten more than 13,000 Scottish jobs.
- Coverage also noted Green policies to cancel the Trident replacement and question NATO ties, positions critics say could jeopardize shipyard work in Govan and Scotstoun and weaken national security.