FIRST Minister Humza Yousaf has rejected claims he and his deputy misled Holyrood about WhatsApp messages during the Covid pandemic.
Pressed by Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross at a fiery First Minister’s Questions on Thursday, Yousaf did admit that the Government had interpreted requests for messages from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry “too narrowly”.
Asked to admit he “didn’t tell the truth” by Ross, the First Minister said: “I absolutely refute that.”“What I do accept fully from the inquiry is that we have interpreted their requests too narrowly and subsequently having done so we have then supplied 14,000 messages to the inquiry.”leader then fired back at Ross and said he should be “ashamed” of his previous support of ex-prime minister Boris Johnson.
He said the UK inquiry had raised concerns that it had not been submitted in full and in some cases was almost entirely redacted. The First Minister then confirmed the redactions had been made due to issues around legal privilege, adding: “Therefore, of course, a discussion would have to take place with our law officers in relation to what can be unredacted.
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