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Cop26 guards slept in 40-person ‘dorm’ at Gleneagles despite Covid fears
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Government delegations staying at the five-star Gleneagles hotel for Cop26 were guarded by security personnel slept on camping cots in a 40-person dormitory set up in a lounge at the venue, raising concerns about Covid safety at the climate summit.
The team of men were recruited and housed by a security company under a Foreign Office contract just days before the world leaders summit opened at the Glasgow climate talks. Three individuals have now come forward to raise their concerns about the cramped and unsanitary conditions in which they were housed at the luxury hotel.
One worker claimed: “We were treated like animals. We would have to take our food back to the same room – extremely stuffy from the warmth and the body odour – we’d have to
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