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Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, defended Nicola Sturgeon’s handling of the Covid crisis at FMQs in Holyrood today.
Sturgeon, his predecessor, had a difficult day giving evidence to the Covid inquiry yesterday, and this morning Alister Jack, the Scottish secretary, told the inquiry that he did not believe she had been telling the truth when she said she was not seeking political advantage in her handling of the crisis. (See 12.37pm.)
Referring to his predecessor, Yousaf told MSPs:
When it comes to steering this country through some of its darkest days, I am very pleased we had Nicola Sturgeon in charge here of the Scottish government as opposed to Boris Johnson. On the big calls, many of the decisions we made helped to save lives.
Yousaf said he accepted that there may have been times when Scottish ministers “could have perhaps moved quicker, or moved earlier, or done thing differently”.
But he added:
Our political opponents may well try to rewrite history and engage in smears and insults.
I can stand up here and say I know that every single day of that pandemic, Nicola Sturgeon, the rest of us in the Scottish government, civil service included, worked for one reason and one reason only: to protect the…
2024-02-01 09:25:40
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