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Letters: Lockdown delay blame lies in London, not Edinburgh


Was the Scottish Government as culpable as the Westminster Government over the delay to impose lockdown at the start of the pandemic?
IAIN Macwhirter s comment that “the Scottish Government made exactly the same mistakes as Mr Johnson. She [the First Minister] similarly delayed lockdown in March 2020, halted community testing and failed to protect care homes” is riddled with errors ( Sturgeon could be caught in the Cummings crossfire , The Herald, May 26).
First, is he unaware that until the end of March 2020 the devolved governments did not have the powers to declare a lockdown? The lockdown in Scotland on March 23 may have been too late, but the powers to do so lay at Westminster at that time. ....

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Letters: Why have we still not got a clear timetable on who will be vaccinated by when and by whom?


IT is now almost a week since you published my letter – and others – calling for a clear timetable to be announced by Nicola Sturgeon regarding the vaccine programme (Letters, January 7) and surprise, surprise, we are all still waiting. Could this be due to her being too focused on her independence priorities, as articulated over the weekend by her overstretched deputy John Swinney ( Salmond row Sturgeon claim ‘absolute nonsense’ , The Herald, January 11), or perhaps she is overly occupied preparing her defence to Alex Salmond s recent and potentially career-ending allegations?
If the vaccine programme were indeed her top priority as she says it is – and assuming she had the leadership skills to direct and lead it – we would have had a very clear timetable published by now, indicating who will be vaccinated by when and by whom, with clear mileposts identified to objectively measure progress against quantifiable objectives. Instead, from her and her wholly inept ....

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