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What’s the point of the Scottish government’s ‘non-optional guidance’ on Covid?
Scotland is sleepwalking into a fresh crisis under the SNP-Green coalition, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER

IF YOU had told anyone in Scotland this time last year that we would be facing the very real prospect of an imminent lockdown, they would have lamented.

They would have told you that was surely impossible, valuable lessons would be learned and applied in the year that followed. But this is exactly the position we find ourselves in.

The SNP, just like the Tories, will tell you the situation is essentially not one of their making and is due to the freak occurrence of a new variant.

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