Cole-Hamilton responds to Sturgeon at UK Covid Inquiry

31 Jan 2024
Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP

Responding to Nicola Sturgeon’s appearance at the UK Covid Inquiry today, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“Today, the trust that millions of Scots and their families placed in the former First Minister lies in tatters.

“We now know that there were, by Nicola Sturgeon’s own admission, “flaws and deficiencies” in the guidance that allowed Covid positive patients to be discharged into care homes.

“We now know that on decisions as serious as shutting schools, Nicola Sturgeon kept key figures in her government locked out. She led meetings where major decisions were discussed, but no minutes were kept, effectively creating a government within a government.

“And we know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that Nicola Sturgeon deleted every single one of her WhatsApps, breaking the promise she made to bereaved families and the imminent public inquiry to keep all her private messages. That is, quite simply, unforgivable.”

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