Nicola Sturgeon has said she found it “incredulous” the Prime Minister and Chancellor did not attend a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee called to discuss the the surging tide of covid infections.
The First Minister took to Twitter on Sunday evening to express her frustration Boris Johnson is ignoring pleas from devolved governments and scientific advisers to go into lockdown to stop the spread of the Omicron variant.
She tweeted: “As infections soar and businesses suffer, we still need much more urgency in action and support from UK Gov - so that devolved government’s hands (are) not tied.“To that end, it was disappointing and frustrating that neither the PM nor the Chancellor attended this evening’s COBRA.” Sturgeon has been