A tearful Nicola Sturgeon fought back tears as she revealed there were times during the pandemic she wished she hadn’t been first minister.
Giving evidence to the official inquiry, Ms Sturgeon was asked if she thought she was well suited to the role after heavily criticising Boris Johnson’s handling of the crisis.
She said: “I don’t think I’m betraying any secrets here when I thought Boris Johnson was the wrong person to be prime minister - full stop.
“I was the first minister when the pandemic struck. There’s a large part of me wishes that I hadn’t been”, she said as she became audibly and visibly upset.”
She added: “But I was and I wanted to be the best first minister I could be during that period. It’s for others to judge the extent to which I succeeded”.
Earlier, Ms Sturgeon admitted to the inquiry that she deleted her WhatsApp messages from the pandemic.
She initially said her messages “weren’t retained” rather than deleted but when Jamie Dawson KC asked her: “But did you delete them?” she conceded: “Yes, in the manner I have set out.”
