CLAIM “Nicola Sturgeon is accused of taking the EU s side and risking vaccine rollout as she vows to publish details of UK s supplies despite Boris Johnson ordering her to keep them secret” – Daily Mail, January 29 2021
DOORSTOP ANSWER Scotland has a better record of vaccinating care home residents and health workers than in England. The only reason the Tories want to keep secret the state of vaccine supplies in the UK is because they fear public opinion will demand Britain co-operates with the rest of humanity to fight Covid-19, instead of concentrating on photo-ops for Boris.
BACKGROUND For some weeks, Conservative politicians and the Unionist media have criticised the Scottish Government for being slower to vaccinate the local population as compared to the record in England, and that surplus vaccine supplies were therefore going unused north of the Border.