Covid Inquiry UK LIVE: Alister Jack to give evidence after Nicola Sturgeon grilled on WhatsApp use
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Jamie Dawson now talking about scientific evidence showing the original strain of Covid being eradicated from Scotland.
Mr Jack says this is "irrelevant" due to the mutation.
He does not agree that eradication of the virus was a possible approach during the pandemic.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mr Jack believes that the Scottish Government were politically motivated in their response.
He adds that he doesn't believe "how many people were in a garden and who could pop in to use the loo" had any impact on the spread of the virus.
He believes this was only being done to appear "different" from the UK Government.
Slightly spicy comments made by John Swinney about Alister Jack are now being read out... and responded to.
Mr Jack is now listing the different involvements he felt he had in the Scottish Governments covid response, refuting Mr Swinney's claim that he had little to no impact.
A lot of talk about working relationships with Mr Swinney taking up a lot of time. I'm not sure it's a topic where anyone is going to come off looking particularly good.
"I suspect people might be more interested in the effectiveness of the communication, rather than the communication itself"
Jamie Dawson KC is very good.
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