Nicola Sturgeon has defended her doomed attempt to cling on to her chief medical officer even after police issued her with a warning for twice travelling to her family’s second home during the coronavirus lockdown.
The First Minister said she was “trying to make the best judgments” by attempting to keep Dr Catherine Calderwood in post in the face of intense public anger over her flouting her own guidance on stopping all but essential travel.
But she said she finally realised that Dr Calderwood had sent a “terrible message” and the loss of her advice was outweighed by the risk people would stop listening to her government’s pleas to stay at home.
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