Deleted WhatsApp messages. The transfer of patients from hospitals to care homes without testing them for Covid. Texts describing Boris Johnson as a “f****** clown”.
Just some of the issues that are likely to come up as Nicola Sturgeon gives evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Wednesday.
The stakes are high for the former first minister as she seeks to explain the vital decisions she took while at the helm of the Scottish Government during the coronavirus pandemic.
She is also fighting to save her reputation and legacy, which has taken a severe battering by the testimony delivered so far at the inquiry alongside the ongoing police investigation into the SNP’s funding and finances.
It’s all a far cry from the daily televised briefings during lockdown, when Sturgeon’s political stock and favour among the public had never been higher.
Now she has the opportunity to respond to some of the evidence heard at the inquiry in recent weeks.
