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Letters: Devolution has hindered the UK's fight against Covid


ALLAN Sutherland (Letters, July 12) calls for a Scottish inquiry into the response to the pandemic, but it is much more appropriate for any Covid inquiry to take part at a UK level, because the main Covid response in terms of funding support, vaccines and testing capacity backing has come from that level, and our lockdown response was decided at that level too with Scottish Government support.
But there is another reason as well. Different people saying different things at different times has undoubtedly led to a confusion in messaging and therefore a breakdown in community understanding and support, and the result of this has almost certainly been more illness and more death. The devolved nature of the present UK may well have worked against us in this pandemic, and made the outcomes worse. Any inquiry must therefore be done at the higher level so that devolved administrations are properly scrutinised, and Nicola Sturgeon in particular does not have the opportunity and ti ....

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