Until last Thursday, if you’d asked a Scottish voter which senior politician between Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson had been the more successful leader throughout the difficult days of Coronavirus lockdown, odds are they’d have said the First Minister, every time
The findings of the UK Covid Inquiry should put an end to that particular example of Scottish exceptionalism
Why it is time to stop pretending Nicola Sturgeon is some kind of political giant
Inquiry Chairwoman Baroness Hallett tells us not only that the SNP Government at Holyrood was inadequately prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic but that it simply adopted flawed UK government resilience plans without adapting them for Scotland’s needs.
So much for Scottish solutions for Scottish problems, then.
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in the cold light of day, four years after that first lockdown, it’s now clear that Sturgeon is every bit as responsible for the failure to prepare