Nicola Sturgeon has told the UK Covid Inquiry the Scottish Government she led during the pandemic “did our best… but did not get everything right”
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She added: “Every day the government I led did our best to take the best possible decisions, but equally we did not get everything right.” She said: “The pandemic may be over but for many people their suffering continues and there is not a day that passes that I don’t think about that.” In her resignation speech as first minister, she said: “Leading this country through the Covid pandemic is by far the toughest thing I’ve done.Her evidence will be followed by that of former deputy first minister John Swinney.Former health secretary Jeane Freeman said that, while Scotland could have better handled the pandemic, there was ultimately “no plan” that could have helped the country cope with Covid.
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