"Nicola Sturgeon excluded senior advisers from decision-making during the pandemic by holding gold command meetings with a small circle, reducing transparency and accountability, the Covid inquiry has found. In a damning report on how UK politicians handled Covid, former prime minister Boris Johnson was criticised for presiding over a toxic and chaotic culture and making late decisions that cost lives. Along with the UK government, leaders of the devolved nations came under fire, with the report stating there was a serious failure by all four governments to appreciate the level of risk and the calamity that the UK faced."
"Sturgeon, then first minister of Scotland, was found to have been a serious and diligent leader who took responsibility for decisions but who excluded other senior decision-makers. The Scottish cabinet became a decision-ratifying body and not the ultimate decision-making body and the informal gold command structure reduced transparency. It also deprived decision-makers of a wide range of views, the report found."
Nicola Sturgeon excluded senior advisers by convening gold command meetings with a small circle, reducing transparency and accountability and limiting the range of views available to decision-makers. The Scottish cabinet became a decision-ratifying body rather than the ultimate decision-making authority. Boris Johnson presided over a toxic and chaotic culture and made late decisions that cost lives. All four UK governments seriously underestimated the level of risk and the scale of the calamity faced. In Wales, delays to further restrictions and a late two-week firebreak lockdown contributed to a higher Covid death rate and the highest age-standardised mortality among the four nations.
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