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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Craig Paton

Scottish Government ‘had no real strategy’ for Covid in early 2020 – inquiry

The Scottish Government “had no real strategy” for the pandemic in the early part of 2020, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has found.

Baroness Heather Hallett released a more than 700-page report on Thursday on the Government decision-making during the pandemic and found the devolved administrations’ response early in 2020 as being “inadequate” and too reliant on the UK Government.

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