My main regret is not locking down sooner, Sturgeon tells Covid inquiry
Not locking down “a week, two weeks earlier” at the start of the pandemic is a chief regret, Nicola Sturgeon told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry in an emotional evidence session.
The former first minister became tearful at times while giving evidence in Edinburgh on Wednesday, including when saying a “large part” of her wishes she had not been Scotland’s first minister during the pandemic.
She said: “Of the many regrets I have, probably chief of those is that we didn’t lock down a week, two weeks, earlier than we did.”
She denied making pandemic decisions for political reasons, adding she had not “thought
