Nicola Sturgeon DELETED all Covid WhatsApp messages, UK inquiry reveals
NATS chiefs were today forced to publish more than 100 pages of WhatsApps from ministers - despite initially claiming none existed more than two years ago.And ministers only released them after being taken to Scotland's information watchdog by this newspaper in what is a major transparency victory for The Scottish Sun.
In a later message, she adds: “There is a great deal of game playing going on that is truly unacceptable”. Other ministers who can now be revealed to have used WhatsApp for government business include ex-deputy first minister John Swinney, ex-finance secretary Kate Forbes, the then-social justice secretary and now deputy first minister, Shona Robison, and then-education secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville.Ministers were first asked for the messages more than two years ago in December 2021 but repeatedly claimed they did not have a single WhatsApp.
Government figures attacked the criticism “ridiculous” and said opposition MSPs “used to criticise ministers for using WhatsApp - now they criticise them for not using WhatsApp”. Scots Tory party chairman Craig Hoy said the SNP were treated Scots like they are “buttoned up the back” and that the public had seen through “ludicrous” claims government business was not done on WhatsApp.“Scots deserve better than senior government figures misleading them over the widespread use of messaging apps and this development reeks of the SNP’s addiction to secrecy.
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