When Nicola Sturgeon broke down at the UK Covid inquiry she was accused of shedding crocodile tears. They looked real enough to me, induced by having her motives impugned and of watching what was left of her legacy leach away under Jamie Dawson KC’s questioning.
The former first minister was willing to admit to errors of judgment. What she could not accept was that she had ever acted in anything other than what she believed to be the best interests of the people of Scotland.
