The UK Covid Inquiry sitting in Edinburgh has been revealing. The view that the Scottish Government did a better, more honest and transparent job than the UK Government of dealing with the Covid pandemic has been shown to be entirely untrue. The truth is both governments struggled as did those all around the world.

The UK Government has one shining credit on its record which is the effective and speedy way it led on vaccines. Vaccines were the real game changer, saving many lives.

The Scottish Government's triumph was PR. Like President Zelensky's nightly broadcast to the people of Ukraine, Nicola Sturgeon was genuinely good at coming into our living rooms on television telling us what the Scottish Government was doing. To be good at PR is an achievement but it is not a real thing, it may make people feel good but it saves few lives.

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What the Covid inquiry has also shown is the troubling fact that our government in Scotland does not work well.

This is a new thing. When the Labour/LibDem coalition was in power but had the humility to call itself an executive rather than, pompously, a government, things actually worked quite well. There was no manufactured conflict with the UK government and our leaders in Scotland, instead of trying to compete with........

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