Then first minister criticised PM’s ‘utter incompetence’ in WhatsApp exchange with chief of staff
Nicola Sturgeon described Boris Johnson as “a fucking clown” as he broadcast to the nation to announce a second Covid lockdown in October 2020, telling her chief of staff: “His utter incompetence in every sense is now offending me on behalf of politicians everywhere.”
The former first minister’s damning verdict on the UK government’s communications strategy – which she dismissed as “awful … we’re not perfect but we don’t get nearly enough credit for how much better than them we are” – was revealed during evidence at the UK Covid inquiry, which is sitting for a second week in Edinburgh.
