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Nicola Sturgeon’s decisions as first minister will come under detailed scrutiny during a three-week hearing
The UK Covid inquiry will investigate evidence that ministers in Scotland failed to properly fund social care and failed to fully protect those at greatest risk from the virus, it emerged on Tuesday.
Heather Hallett, the chair of the independent inquiry, was told that Nicola Sturgeon’s decisions as first minister would come under detailed scrutiny during a three-week hearing in Edinburgh devoted to the Scottish government’s response to the pandemic.
Whether Scottish ministers covered up the first recorded Covid outbreak in Scotland, from a Nike conference in Edinburgh in February 2020.
The Scottish government’s imposition of local lockdowns on individual towns and cities, causing anger from council and business leaders.
Whether ministers tried to pursue a “zero Covid” strategy even though it had a porous border with England.
Whether Scottish ministers were unfairly excluded from proper Treasury funding and decision-making by the UK government
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