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in november 2020 in scotland. the second lockdown in scotland came when the alpha variant came along. so i don't accept that our eye was off the ball. i think we were taking difficult decisions, reaching difficult decisions, reaching difficult balances, in the best way that we possibly could. and i think the evidence, overall, is that while our response was far from... far from avoiding all of the horrible, horrendous harm that was done, i would say an assessment of the outcomes, overall, suggests that while our approach was far from perfect, it actually managed to mitigate some harm...

first minister, nicola sturgeon, was sometimes critical of how the westminster government handled this. cast your mind back to the height of the pandemic when we were all facing government imposed restrictions, look down rules on social mixing. different nations were able to set their own rules and that sometimes lead to clashes between the government in london and the scottish government about everything from messaging to concrete decisions. it is an example. this is a message that emerged in the inquiry earlier this week. nicola sturgeon said to one of her key aides, describing bor...

She reigned for almost three quarters of a century as the world changed around her. She was a symbol of unity in good times and bad. Successful because she knew her unique place and she understood it. The act of being there, of being. You know, a. A continuing. Reference point of stability and endless duties is something that i think is. Is of the greatest importance. It was really about service and her definition of service, and that was a lifetime. Literally 24 7, 365 days of the year. It was never something you could turn off and turn on. It was there all the time. It is so strange to almos...

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Recent events prompt a review of events in Palestine after the Second World War. What did Churchill say about them?