The First Minister has been at the centre of a secrecy row after the UK Covid Inquiry complained it had not been handed messages sent by Scottish Government officials during the pandemic.
Humza Yousaf has admitted a former Scottish Government policy meant that ministers and officials routinely deleted WhatsApp messages from their phones.
The Scottish Government then claimed it was prepared to hand over messages from 2020 and 2021 - but only if a formal Section 21 order was granted allowing them to so. Speaking to LBC Radio today, Yousaf said: "I have kept WhatsApp messages and fully intend to hand them over to the covid inquiry. Whatever the covid inquiry wishes to see, I'm more than happy to do that.It comes after the Sunday Mail reported yesterday that messages related to covid had been manually deleted from a phone belonging to Sturgeon.
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