First minister also says UK government’s hotel quarantine plans ‘do not go far enough’

Nicola Sturgeon has questioned whether Boris Johnson’s planned trip from London to Scotland on Thursday is “genuinely essential”, suggesting his visit makes it harder to convince the public to stick to travel restrictions.

At her daily briefing, when she also warned that the UK government’s hotel quarantine plan for travellers “does not go far enough”, Scotland’s first minister said that while she was sure the prime minister and his advisors would take care to make sure no laws were broken, “we all have to make judgments on what we genuinely think is essential”.

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