Scotland’s First Minister hit out a the frustrating delay to at COBRA meeting date being announced in order to make decisions on new coronavirus restrictions across Britain. Ms Sturgeon stated that she will be speaking directly to Prime Minister Boris Johnson later today to gain greater clarifications on the next steps the UK will take to combat a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Ms Sturgeon said: “Ideally some of these decisions will be taken on a four nations basis across the UK.
“We all of course have our own individual responsibilities and we will perhaps take decisions that are not entirely identical but given that virus does not respect borders, alignment if possible does make sense.
“It is the UK Government that holds the financial leavers necessary to mitigate the economic impact of any measures.
“That is why I asked on Friday for an urgent COBRA meeting and repeated that call over the weekend.
“That call has been echoed in Wales and London.”
She continued: “I am therefore pleased in a four nations call with Michael Gove on Saturday he confirmed that a COBRA meeting will take place.
“Although it is frustrating that we still do not have a precise time for that and do not have confirmation if that will take place today or tomorrow.
“I am however directly talking to the Prime Minister after this press conference and hopefully we will have greater clarity from that discussion.”
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