The list of damages caused by Brexit grows ever longer. The reckless and unjustified decision to terminate the UK’s membership of the European Union has already dented the economy and pushed up prices.
It makes life more difficult for Scots travelling abroad and pushes the cost of doing business higher and higher. Now we learn that health officials were so concerned about the prospect of a no-deal Brexit that pandemic planning in the months before Covid was hampered.
A board set up to work on how to deal with such an event had to suspend meetings for over six months prior to the coronavirus outbreak. It was set up by then deputy first minister John Swinney in 2017 to better prepare Scotland for a future pandemic.
