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Humza Yousaf: Scottish government discovered UK Covid policy via the news

Scotland’s first minister also said information would often arrive ‘minutes before the meeting’

Humza Yousaf: Scottish government discovered UK Covid policy via the news
First minister Humza Yousaf arrives at the Covid inquiry in Edinburgh | Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Humza Yousaf said he was “deeply frustrated” by the Boris Johnson government's failure to collaborate with the Scottish government during the pandemic.

Scotland’s first minister, who served as both justice secretary and health secretary in the devolved government during the pandemic, told the Covid inquiry information was often arriving “at the absolute last minute before a meeting”.

“Five, ten minutes before the meeting was to start,” he explained. “Or we were reading about an announcement of a decision already been made by the UK government.”