Skip to content
openDemocracy
Subscribe

Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland should have locked down two weeks earlier

The former first minister also denied having a political agenda in her management of the pandemic

By Ruby Lott-Lavigna
Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland should have locked down two weeks earlier
Nicola Sturgeon at a Covid press conference in March 2020. She told the Covid inquiry not locking down two weeks earlier was her biggest regret | Michael Schofield - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Published:
Share

Nicola Sturgeon has said one of her biggest regrets is not locking down Scotland two weeks earlier as coronavirus spread across the country in 2020.

Speaking at the UK Covid inquiry on Wednesday, the former first minister admitted that action should have been taken earlier.

“I don’t know that anybody can say with certainty what difference it would have made in the overall trajectory of the pandemic and the outcomes of the pandemic, but of the many regrets I have, probably chief of those is that we didn’t lock down a week, two weeks earlier than we did,” she said.

This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. If you have any queries about republishing please contact us. Please check individual images for licensing details.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0