Nicola Sturgeon has called on Boris Johnson to “urgently intervene” to re-start financial support for businesses facing the consequences of her covid appeal to Scots to stay at home and avoid social gatherings in the run-up to Christmas.
The First Minister told Holyrood she has requested a meeting with the Prime Minister later today to re-start furlough and business support schemes as she delivered a grave warning on the economic and health damage that could be caused by rapid spread of Omicron.
Sturgeon told MSPs that the UK government needed to “act now” to slow the spread of the virus or face the consequences. She said: “If we don’t act now, what we have feared all along but so far avoided, the overwhelming of the NHS, could happen.“L