Nicola Sturgeon ‘could cry from one eye if she wanted to,’ Alister Jack told the UK Covid Inquiry this morning. It was an interesting medical observation from the Scottish Secretary presumably intended to suggest that the former first minister’s emotional moments in her evidence yesterday were contrived. Sturgeon fought back tears a number of times when she insisted she just wanted ‘to be the best first minister I could be’ during the pandemic, resolute in her denials that she had had ulterior political motives.
‘I didn’t believe it for a minute,’ Jack, the Tory MP for Dumfries asserted, roundly accusing the former first minister of politicising the pandemic. Sturgeon had told the Covid Inquiry she’d had no knowledge of a cabinet minute, from June 2020, which indicated that the Scottish government was planning to restart the independence campaign ‘with the arguments reflecting the experience of the coronavirus crisis’.
Sturgeon was always on the lookout for ways to promote her country and her government.
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