Hallet Inquiry: The Welsh Truths

Lockdowns were for the "sake of it"

England’s leg of the Inquiry was full of character assassinations, effing and jeffing and flip-flops. Anything of note was lost when the PM’s phone was mysteriously wiped. If it hadn’t been for the Lockdown Files, we probably would have never learned that masks in schools were introduced to avoid an argument with Nicola.

But in Scotland, some of the decision-makers began to loosen their tongues: officials "froze" in the face of the evidence about the virus; Sturgeon let it be known that in wanting to be the person who drove Covid out of Scotland, she entered into direct Twitter messaging with Professor Sridhar. We also learnt that Sir Gregor Smith, Scotland’s CMO, deleted his WattsApp messages “at the end of every day” and encouraged his colleagues to do so too.

We have already written that the Welsh First Minister considered lockdowns a failed experiment and that Welsh government ministers were using disappearing messages. But all this pales into insignificance with the latest testimon…