Nicola Sturgeon was correct when she said England’s coronavirus infection rate was more than 20 per cent higher than in Scotland, the statistics watchdog has confirmed.
The First Minister was accused of having “seriously twisted” the Covid figures by the Lib Dems who reported her to the UK Statistics Authority.
Office of National Statistics figures cited by Sturgeon showed 5.47 per cent of people in England are infected compared to 4.49% in Scotland – a difference of 0.98 percentage points or 21.8 per cent.
