Matt Hancock unleashes on Nicola Sturgeon's Covid policies in scathing diary ... trends now
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Matt Hancock thought Nicola Sturgeon's Covid policies were hopeless and suggested she'd 'build a Trump-style wall' between Scotland and the rest of Britain if given the opportunity.
The former Health Secretary made the scathing assessment in his explosive pandemic diaries, serialised in today's Mail on Sunday and The Mail+.
In his entry from May 4, Mr Hancock wrote: 'Tonight, Nicola Sturgeon announced a 'summer push to elimination [of Covid]'.
He said the policy 'has about as much hope of working as Chairman Mao's attempt to eliminate sparrows by getting the Chinese population to bang pots and pans.
'Much as I'm sure Nicola would love to build a Trump-style wall between her fiefdom and the rest of Great Britain, we're all in this together.'
The first known case of Covid in Scotland was identified on March 1, 2020, 10 days before the World Health Organisation had even declared it a pandemic.
Matt Hancock thought Nicola Sturgeon's Covid policies were hopeless and suggested she'd 'build a Trump-style wall' between Scotland and the rest of Britain if given the opportunity
Within days, Ms Sturgeon had issued a statement urging people with symptoms to stay at home for seven days and by March 15, the Scottish Government had advised event organisers to postpone or cancel any events of 500 people or more.
On March 17, she warned 'life will
