BORIS Johnson has said he thought it was 'wrong' for him to hold regular meetings with Nicola Sturgeon and the Welsh First Minister during…
The former prime minister made the comments in his evidence submitted to the ongoing official inquiry into the pandemic.
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have devolved responsibility for health, meaning they set different Covid rules from England during the pandemic, leading to vastly different restrictions across the UK.early in the pandemic but later passed the responsibility to the then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove.In written evidence to the inquiry, Johnson said:"I did chair some of the four nation , but I was content to let Michael lead.
The then-secretary of state for Wales, Simon Hart, was said to have been"nervous" about excluding the three countries from decisions.Scottish Secretary Alister Jack was recorded as saying that"working at official level would be better" than with the heads of government as it"would avoid Scottish grandstanding".
Johnson also told the inquiry he regretted making Covid laws through health legislation rather than civil contingencies legislation, which would have allowed the UK to centralise control of the pandemic response.
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