ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have accused Labour, the Lib Dems and the Scottish Tories of “being too embarrassed to mention” nuclear weapons in a critique of party election manifestos. 

Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) has published a comparison of climate and environmental promises, pointing out that only the SNP and Greens have pledged to remove nuclear weapons from Scotland.

The group says the Tories are consistently the weakest on a variety of areas of environmental policy, with just Labour and the Greens promising a statutory “just transition” commission to advise the next government. 

The Greens, Labour and the Lib Dems have committed to establishing a legal right to a healthy environment, while the SNP’s commitment on a range of human rights to be put into law is less specific.

FoES director Dr Richard Dixon said: “This should have been the climate-emergency election. 

“It is now a Covid-recovery election, but it still needs to be about creating a green wellbeing economy and generating the green jobs we need to make the just transition out of fossil-fuel production.”