and getting into covid recovery, but doesn't take the opportunity when in scotland to come and talk to me directly about how we might cooperate and work together. i think people willjust find that strange and it is for boris johnson to explain why. this is the first opportunity given covid is to sit down socially distance and have a face—to—face chat, and i think it would have been a good opportunity. i was getting ready to welcome him to bute house today. there is a lot that borisjohnson and i fundamentally disagree on but we both lead governments that are trying to get the country through covid, and so there's a lot for us to cooperate on. a missed opportunity but that's on him. i stand ready to work with whoever i can, however i can to get scotland through covid and into recovery. the explanation borisjohnson gave in his response was there will be