Scottish Lockdown Queen Admits Deleting Covid-Era Messages, Failed to Record ‘Gold Command’ Meeting Minutes

 

Disgraced former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has admitted to deleting messages with staff during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, despite claims of being transparent and open about decisions made during the lockdowns.

 

Arriving at a Covid-19 inquiry in Edinburgh, the former head of the leftist-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon was greeted with heckles from the public, with shouts of “Where are your WhatsApps?” as she entered the city’s International Conference Centre, The Times of London reported.

 

In the hearing on Wednesday, Sturgeon publicly confirmed media reports that she had personally deleted swaths of Covid-era communications with government staff on the mobile WhatsApp messaging service on her phone, severely undercutting her claims of operating a government based on “openness and transparency”.

 

Casting doubt on this assertion — which she continues to maintain — the inquiry heard that the former manager of the Coronavirus response for the Scottish government, Ken Thompson, sent messages explaining to bureaucrats where the “clear chat” function was in the app, while boasting that “plausible deniability is my middle name”.

 

Sturgeon has attempted to downplay her decision to delete the messages from her phone, saying that she was able to recover some of the communications and provided them to the inquiry, while claiming that no major decisions were made over WhatsApp.

 

However, the hearing on Wednesday also heard that Sturgeon’s government also failed to record minutes from “gold command” meetings with her advisors and top ministers on the lockdown response during 2020 and 2021, The Guardian reports.

 

 

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