Scottish ministers to release 14,000 Covid WhatsApp messages – Yahoo News Singapore

The Scottish government will hand over more than 14,000 WhatsApp messages to the UK Covid Inquiry, Deputy First Minister Shona Robison has announced.She also said First Minister Humza Yousaf would share his messages.The government had been criticised for not handing over all relevant data to the UK Covid Inquiry, with senior figures accused of deleting messages.Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon refused to say whether or not she had erased any messages.Speaking to reporters in the Scottish Parliament, she said she had “nothing to hide”.Sturgeon: I was not in any WhatsApp Covid groupsWhy would Scottish ministers delete WhatsApps?Yousaf denies deleting Covid WhatsApp messagesSturgeon Covid messages deleted from phone – report”I did not manage the Covid response by WhatsApp,” said the ex-SNP leader, who is alleged to have manually deleted messages.”For example, I was not a member of any WhatsApp groups. I managed the Covid response from my office in St Andrews House.”She added: “I will set out in full to the inquiry how I operated, what I hold, what I don’t hold and the reasons for that.”Opposition MSPs have accused ministers of a cover-up.During a statement to parliament, Ms Robison apologised to bereaved families for “any lack of clarity” about material
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