UK COVID inquiry: Nicola Sturgeon branded Boris Johnson a 'clown' in foul-mouthed messages during pandemic - Sky News

Nicola Sturgeon described Boris Johnson as a "clown" during the pandemic, a series of foul-mouthed messages shown to the COVID inquiry has revealed.

The exchange between the former first minister and her chief of staff Liz Lloyd took place on 31 October 2020 as the then prime minister appeared on TV to announce the second national lockdown.

Ms Sturgeon hit out at the UK government's communications, stating: "This is f****** excruciating - their comms are awful.

"His utter incompetence in every sense is now offending me on behalf of politicians everywhere."

Ms Lloyd said she was "offended" on behalf of special advisers everywhere.

Ms Sturgeon replied: "He is a f****** clown."

Image: The foul-mouthed exchange between Nicola Sturgeon and Liz Lloyd. Pic: COVID inquiry

Ms Lloyd's evidence comes amid ongoing scrutiny over messages exchanged by ministers and officials during the pandemic.

Usman Tariq, junior counsel to the inquiry, highlighted an exchange made on 22 September 2020.

In a message sent to Ms Lloyd just two hours before a briefing in light of differing Westminster regulations, Ms Sturgeon said: "We haven't thought about weddings. They are reducing but not sure what to."

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Special adviser Ms Lloyd responded they should "just leave it" as the Scottish government had recently increased the number of guests allowed to 20.

Mr Tariq asked: "Is this not an example of a decision that was made very much at the last minute over WhatsApp between you and Nicola Sturgeon?"

Ms Lloyd said she did not view this as making a decision because it had already been made in cabinet.

She refuted a suggestion the message implied the decision was "made on the hoof", arguing that sticking with the numbers determined earlier via scientific evidence was a "more coherent" position.

Image: Ms Lloyd with former first minister Ms Sturgeon in 2019. Pic: PA

Ms Lloyd was said to be in favour of telling the public about a Nike conference in Edinburgh, the location of Scotland's first recognised outbreak of the virus.

Then chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood strongly advised against it, citing patient confidentiality.

Ms Lloyd said she had "no recollection" of reading the Scottish government's policy of deleting informal messages after decisions had been made.

She also said she regretted not being able to provide messages prior to 1 September 2020, stating: "I thought I had them. I have sourced them, I have done everything that I am able to do as far as I can to find them.

"I thought I had retained them, and they're not there."

She explained that she's not the "best administrator of devices", adding: "I can't say whether I actively deleted them, I can't say whether they got lost. I don't know."

Image: Ms Lloyd giving evidence. Pic: PA/COVID inquiry

The inquiry was also shown a document from July 2020 where Brexit and Scottish independence were referenced.

In the cabinet meeting it was agreed that consideration should be given to "restarting work on independence".

Lady Hallett, chair of the inquiry, questioned whether it looked like the "politicisation of the coronavirus pandemic" to advance the cause of independence.

Ms Lloyd replied: "It says consideration was given to this but was not done at this time."

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The inquiry is currently sitting in Edinburgh as it probes the devolved administration's response to the pandemic.

Ms Sturgeon will appear at the inquiry next Wednesday.

Ms Lloyd's appearance came ahead of First Minister Humza Yousaf, who was giving evidence on Thursday afternoon.

Image: Liz Lloyd arriving at the inquiry on Thursday. Pic: PA

Earlier in the week, the inquiry was shown a WhatsApp exchange in November 2021 between then health secretary Mr Yousaf and national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch.

At the time, COVID rules in Scotland meant people would not have to wear a mask if they were sitting down to eat or drink, but would if they were moving around a bar or restaurant while not drinking.

Ahead of an event, Mr Yousaf messaged: "I know sitting at the table I don't need my mask. If I'm standing talking to folk, need my mask on?"

Mr Leitch responded: "Officially yes. But literally no one does. Have a drink in your hands at all times. Then you're exempt. So if someone comes over and you stand, lift your drink."

Professor Leitch rejected a suggestion that he had offered a "workaround" to the rules, while a spokesperson for Mr Yousaf said the exchange "simply shows the then health secretary seeking specific, up-to-date guidance from a senior adviser to ensure he was complying with the COVID rules".

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Norwich deaths: Police urged not to adopt new 999 policy - BBC

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A campaign group has warned more deaths could occur if police go ahead with a new policy of not responding to most 999 mental health calls.

It follows the deaths of two adults and two girls found at a house near Norwich on Friday.

The campaign group said there would be "consequences" if the Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) policy was adopted by Norfolk Police.

The government said implementation of RCRP should reflect local needs.

One of the four found dead in the house, Bartlomiej Kuczynski, 45, had dialled 999 at about 06:00 GMT expressing concern about his mental state, and was directed to NHS 111.

Kanticha Sukpengpanao, 36, Jasmin Kuczynska, 12 and Natasha Kuczynska, nine, were found with him at the house in Costessey an hour later after a dog-walker called police.

Post-mortem examinations showed all four died from stab wounds to the neck.

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Mark Harrison, of the Campaign to Save Mental Health in Norfolk and Suffolk, said he previously wrote to Norfolk Police objecting, after it announced it would be implementing the RCRP policy from February.

Forces across the country have either adopted or are considering RCRP, saying mental health call-outs required huge resources, and that police officers were not qualified to deal with most mental health situations.

Mr Harrison said: "We think there will be severe consequences. We think people will die as a result of the introduction of this scheme - and it's not safe.

"It's not been piloted; it's not got any additional resources and it will be a disaster.

"I think immediately it needs to be paused, [then] it needs to be scrapped.

"We need resources at the frontline, in the community services, in the GP surgeries, we also need investment in beds."

On Tuesday, the NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) said RCRP had been developed with health and social care partners "to ensure mental health, medical or social care issues are dealt with by someone with the right skills, training and experience". "It is really important to remember that police will continue to perform their statutory role of keeping people safe," it said.

It confirmed no extra funding had been made available as a result of RCRP.

It also said that if there was a perceived threat to life, or risk of serious harm, people could and should continue to call 999.

The Department of Health and Social Care said local implementation of the RCRP plans would "reflect the needs of local communities, as well as the capacity of local police and mental health services, and any additional resources required".

"We are investing an extra £2.3bn a year in NHS mental health services by March 2024," a department spokesperson added.

Norfolk Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), in connection with the case.

On Tuesday, the IOPC revealed a man called 999 from inside the property in Allan Bedford Crescent, on the Queen's Hills estate, and said he was confused and worried about his mental state.

Police forced their way into the house and found the bodies just over an hour later, following a call at 07:00 from a concerned dog-walker.

The IOPC said it would be examining whether the handling of the contact with the caller "was appropriate and in line with force policy, training and procedures".

Police said they were treating the deaths of Ms Sukpengpanao and the two girls as murder, but Mr Kuczynski's death as not suspicious.

The force was not seeking anyone else in connection with the deaths, detectives said.

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Storm Jocelyn: 97mph gusts recorded as heavy winds hit UK - BBC

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Storm Jocelyn has been moving across the UK - days after Storm Isha hit and left at least two people dead.

Tuesday was marked by heavy rain in parts, with strong gusts across much of the country on Wednesday morning.

The strongest gust so far, 97mph, was recorded in Capel Curig, north Wales, while in Scotland trains stopped running on Tuesday evening.

The centre of the storm has now passed the UK, and is much weaker than it was on Tuesday night, BBC Weather said.

However, it will remain windy on Wednesday afternoon across Scotland and some of northern England, where a yellow weather warning for wind is in place until 15:00 GMT and gusts of up to 55-65mph are expected.

The weather for the rest of the week looks unremarkable, with some cloud and rain in some areas, but no clear sign of the next named storm - Kathleen - in the forecast.

It has been a particularly stormy autumn and winter, and Storm Jocelyn is the 10th named storm of the season.

The storms have mainly been driven by a powerful jet stream - fast-moving winds high in the atmosphere - crossing the Atlantic, although global phenomena such as the El Niño event also have an impact.

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Elsewhere, a search involving coastguard crews, a helicopter and RNLI lifeboats, for a person reported to be in the sea at Porthcawl, south Wales, has resumed after it was suspended overnight.

Both Isha and Jocelyn have disrupted the journeys of many road, rail and air travellers.

ScotRail said a small number of services had resumed on Wednesday, having been suspended on Tuesday evening.

Phil Campbell, ScotRail's customer operations director, said the company was aware of some damage overnight.

Network Rail Scotland said on Wednesday that most routes have been inspected and re-opened, with most being opened in a controlled manner.

An exception is the Highland Mainline route between Pitlochry and Perth, where river levels are too high for inspection to be possible.

TransPennine Express, which runs services between northern England and Scotland, is advising customers not to travel until noon on Wednesday on its Preston to Glasgow and Preston to Edinburgh routes.

Avanti West Coast said its services to and from Scotland would be cancelled until at least midday on Wednesday.

The storm also caused "major disruption" on Northern Ireland's road network, an official said, and the main road to Belfast International Airport remained closed on Wednesday. The QE2 bridge at the Dartford Crossing on London's M25 also shut on Wednesday due to strong wind, but has since reopened.

Labour has called for a "flood resilience taskforce" to be established to strengthen long-term protections for future freak weather events.

In an urgent question in Parliament, shadow Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden said such a unit should be established "given the frequency of extreme weather events".

In response, Cabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart said the government has learned lessons from past storms, and taken greater efforts to prepare for future extreme weather events.

In Northern Ireland, power has been restored to 50,000 homes, impacted by Storm Isha, leaving 3,000 customers without electricity, according to NIE Networks.

Elsewhere in the UK, Electricity North West said power has been restored to 96% of customers affected by Storm Isha.

In northern Scotland, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said that as of 08:00 on Wednesday supplies had been restored to 2,200 customers in the north of Scotland, with just under 2,400 properties currently without.

As of 12:45 on Wednesday there are also 25 flood warnings in place across Scotland as well as 19 in England.

In York, parts of the city have flooded with water levels on the River Ouse already very high, and set to rise further.

Meanwhile, a man who died after the car he was in hit a fallen tree in Scotland during Storm Isha on Sunday has been named as James "Jimmy" Johnstone, 84, from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. His family described him as a "much loved and well respected family man".

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Motorists are being urged to reconsider making journeys where the weather is expected to be the worst, including western and southern Scotland and north-west England.

"With so much heavy rainfall and debris on the roads, driving conditions will be very challenging," RAC spokeswoman Alice Simpson said.

"We also suggest drivers avoid parking underneath or near to trees," she added.

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Britons face call-up to armed forces if UK goes to war with Russia, army chief says - The Independent

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The head of the British Army has warned that his forces, including all reserves, would not be large enough to defend the country if there is a war with Russia and it was essential to plan for national mobilisation.

General Sir Patrick Sanders said lessons must be learned from the Ukraine war which showed the value of a citizen army. He pointed to the defence strategies being adopted by Baltic and Scandinavian states to involve the general population as a way forward.

The Chief of General Staff (CGS) is said to be opposed to conscription, but held that civilians need to be involved in defending the country at a time of conflict.

Speaking at a conference on armoured warfare in Twickenham, south-west London, Gen Sanders said: “We need an Army designed to expand rapidly to enable the first echelon, resource the second echelon, and train and equip the citizen army that must follow.

“Within the next 3 years, it must be credible to talk of a British Army of 120 000, folding in our Reserve and strategic reserve. But this is not enough.

“Our friends in Eastern and Northern Europe, who feel the proximity of the Russian threat more acutely, are already acting prudently, laying the foundations for national mobilisation.

“As the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee warned just last week, and as the Swedish government has done, preparing Sweden for entry to NATO, taking preparatory steps to enable placing our societies on a war footing when needed are now not merely desirable, but essential.”

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The UK will not escape the consequences of all out war, Gen Sanders said, and must be prepared for what may lie ahead. He said: “We will not be immune and as the pre-war generation we must similarly prepare - and that is a whole-of-nation undertaking. Ukraine brutally illustrates that regular armies start wars; citizen armies win them.”

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine he stressed was “not merely about the black soil of the Donbas, nor the re-establishment of a Russian empire, it’s about defeating our system and way of life politically, psychologically, and symbolically. How we respond as the pre-war generation will reverberate through history. Ukrainian bravery is buying time, for now.”

Gen Sanders, who is due to leave his post this year, has been critical of cuts to the military and its effects in the past. In 2022 he described downsizing of the Army “perverse”, especially so “as a land war rages in Europe and Putin’s territorial ambitions extend into the rest of the decade, and beyond Ukraine”.

Last summer, he compared Army vehicles like the Warrior armoured vehicle and the Challenger 2 tank to “rotary dial telephones in an iPhone age”. He said “our procurement record has been poor and our land industrial base has withered. Furthermore our Army Reserve is not as capable and credible as we need it to be”.

General Lord Dannatt, a former general staff of the British Army, hit out at the shrinking size of the army. He said it has fallen from 102,000 in 2006 to 74,000 today “and falling fast”

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Speaking at the conference Gen Sanders said “over the last 30 years, the Army has been halved in size; in the last 12 years, we’ve absorbed a 28% reduction”. And this was while there is “a fragile world order that our enemies wish to dismantle. I use that term with care, noting that the definition encompasses those who actively oppose or are hostile to our interests”.

While recruitment has been a problem through public services “applications to join the Army are the highest in 6 years. Our nation’s youth are as ready to serve, to seek adventure, to find where they belong, and to better themselves as they ever were. I see the very best of them every day, selflessly committed to service in the armed forces. Generation Z serves with distinction today but they, like their peers of any generation”,.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the head of the military, has pointed out that the Army will be recapitalised next decade with a £44 billion programme. Gen Sanders pointed out “ that money is just 18% committed. During an electoral cycle, uncommitted money is vulnerable.

The National Audit Office’s report into the MoD’s Equipment Plan reported that the Army was £12 billion short of the funding required to meet the full demands of the Integrated Review Refresh. It noted, nevertheless and unlike other services, that by taking considered risks against capability, the Army’s plan is affordable.”

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Gen Sanders comments come just days after Nato military commander Admiral Rob Bauer said that the military alliance needed to prepare for conflict with Vladimir Putin’s forces in the next 20 years.

He said that a large amount of civilians will have to be called out if conflict accelerates in Europe and that governments needed to consider “mobilisation, reservists or conscription”.

Adml Bauer said: “The discussion is much wider... people that have to understand they play a role... The realisation that not everything is plannable and not everything is going to be hunky dory in the next 20 years.”

Gen Sanders intervention comes as the army has faced growing recruitment challenges, but remained focused on bolstering hiring and improving retention – and last summer laid out pay increases for personnel.

Last week General Lord Dannatt, a former general staff of the British Army, hit out at the shrinking size of the army. He said it had fallen from 102,000 personnel in 2006 to 74,000 today and was “falling fast”.

Writing in The Times, he drew parallels with the 1930s when the “woeful” state of the UK’s armed forces failed to deter Hitler. “There is a serious danger of history repeating itself,” he said.

Pointing to rising geopolitical uncertainty, he said: “If our armed forces are not strong enough to deter future aggression from Moscow or Beijing it will not be a small war to contend with but a major one.”

Under government proposals, the size of the regular army will be cut from a commitment of 82,000 troops to 73,000 by 2025.

But analysis by the The Times suggested numbers could drop below that as soon as next year and continue on a steep downward trajectory.

If the army continues to shed troops at the current rate, the number of regular soldiers will fall below 70,000 by 2026, according to the figures compiled by the newspaper.

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Storm Jocelyn: 97mph gusts recorded as heavy winds hit UK - BBC

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Storm Jocelyn has been moving across the UK - days after Storm Isha hit and left at least two people dead.

Tuesday was marked by heavy rain in parts, with strong gusts across much of the country on Wednesday morning.

The strongest gust so far, 97mph, was recorded in Capel Curig, north Wales, while in Scotland trains stopped running on Tuesday evening.

Thousands of homes remain without power in parts of the UK, while transport is still disrupted in some areas.

It has been a particularly stormy autumn and winter, and Storm Jocelyn is the 10th named storm of the season.

The storms have mainly been driven by a powerful jet stream - fast-moving winds high in the atmosphere - crossing the Atlantic, although global phenomena such as the El Niño event also have an impact.

While Jocelyn will continue to move away from the UK during Wednesday, strong to gale-force winds will still affect many northern areas, especially through the morning - winds will only gradually ease off through the day.

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The Met Office has issued warnings for wind covering much of the country until Wednesday afternoon. These are:

• A yellow warning for wind across the whole of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern Wales and north-west England until 13:00 on Wednesday
• A yellow warning for wind for south Wales, the Midlands and north-east England from 12:00 on Tuesday until 15:00 on Wednesday

The strongest winds were expected in exposed parts of northern and western Scotland, and the area was covered by a Met Office amber wind warning until 08:00 on Wednesday.

Elsewhere, a search involving coastguard crews, a helicopter and RNLI lifeboats, for a person reported to be in the sea at Porthcawl, south Wales, was suspended early on Wednesday.

The coastguard said the incident would be reviewed again later.

Both Isha and Jocelyn have disrupted the journeys of many road, rail and air travellers.

Suspended ScotRail trains will not restart until later on Wednesday morning, or into the afternoon, the operator said.

Phil Campbell, ScotRail's customer operations director, said the company was aware of some damage overnight and that the picture would become clearer as inspections were carried out in daylight.

The train company said each route would need to undergo a safety inspection before trains are able to run due to the risk of trees and other debris falling onto the track.

TransPennine Express, which runs services between northern England and Scotland, is advising customers not to travel until noon on Wednesday on its Preston to Glasgow and Preston to Edinburgh routes.

Avanti West Coast said its services to and from Scotland would be cancelled until at least midday on Wednesday.

The storm also caused "major disruption" on Northern Ireland's road network, an official said, and the main road to Belfast International Airport remained closed on Wednesday. The QE2 bridge at the Dartford Crossing on London's M25 also shut on Wednesday due to strong winds.

In Northern Ireland, power has been restored to 50,000 homes, impacted by Storm Isha, leaving 3,000 customers without electricity, according to NIE Networks.

Elsewhere in the UK, Electricity North West said power has been restored to 96% of customers affected by Storm Isha.

In northern Scotland, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said that as of 08:00 on Wednesday supplies had been restored to 2,200 customers in the north of Scotland, with just under 2,400 properties currently without.

As of 09:45 on Wednesday there are also 27 flood warnings in place across Scotland as well as 19 in England.

In York, parts of the city have flooded with water levels on the River Ouse already very high, and set to rise further.

Meanwhile, a man who died after the car he was in hit a fallen tree in Scotland during Storm Isha on Sunday has been named as James "Jimmy" Johnstone, 84, from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. His family described him as a "much loved and well respected family man".

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Motorists are being urged to reconsider making journeys where the weather is expected to be the worst, including western and southern Scotland and north-west England.

"With so much heavy rainfall and debris on the roads, driving conditions will be very challenging," RAC spokeswoman Alice Simpson said.

"We also suggest drivers avoid parking underneath or near to trees," she added.

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