Covis-19 Inquiry: Sturgeon refuses to say whether she kept WhatsApp messages – The Telegraph

Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has “nothing to hide” as she refused to say four times whether she had deleted her Covid WhatsApp messages from the pandemic.The former first minister said she could not disclose whether she had destroyed any of the messages despite Humza Yousaf, her successor, making clear the previous day that he had kept his.In her first appearance following allegations she had manually deleted her messages, she said she had not been a member of any WhatsApp groups during the pandemic but did not deny using the service.Pressed four times whether any messages had been deleted, she insisted she could not say as her responses to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry are confidential.However, she refused to repeat an unequivocal commitment she gave during an Covid press conference in August 2021 to hand over all her WhatsApps to a future public inquiry.Instead, Ms Sturgeon said she managed her messages in line with Scottish Government policies, which allowed ministers to decide which should be retained for official records and which deleted.Baroness Hallett, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry chair, has made clear that she wants to see all the messages from the pandemic and she will then decide what is “relevant or
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