Yousaf under fire for blasting officials in Covid WhatsApps

All has not been well in the Scottish government for some time – and the latest revelation that former first minister Humza Yousaf was slamming civil servant press officers in WhatsApp chats is hardly likely to repair relations. It transpires that hapless Humza and one-time national clinical director Jason Leitch turned on their own officials in Covid message exchanges, uncovered by the Scottish Sun via Freedom of Information request. Oh dear.

In a rather ironic twist, it has emerged that Yousaf complained he was ‘not hugely impressed’ by the efforts of the comms officials working in the health department, before promising to, er, ‘sort it out’. Perhaps he should’ve taken a harder look at his own governing style, eh? Mr S would remind readers that this was the SNP leader pushed out after just over a year in the top job following a rather extraordinary gaffe where he brutally ditched his coalition partners and left the Nats stuck in a minority government.