Today, Professor Jason Leitch, CBE, Scotland’s National Clinical Director will appear before the UK Covid Inquiry. It is likely that he will be asked about the following sequence of WhatsApp messages between Scottish Government officials:
It is notable that these exchanges between senior Scottish Government officials relate to Freedom of Information and an apparent determination to thwart this legislation. Yet a former Scottish Government official [speech writer for several First Ministers] stated on Radio Scotland that wider concerns about this are “much ado about nothing”.
The following article by Alex Massie provides a summary of the backdrop to all of this:
