NICOLA STURGEON admitted today that she could have been “clearer” in answering a journalist’s question at a Covid briefing, where she was asked whether an inquiry would have access to her WhatsApp messages.

Giving evidence to the Britain-wide Covid Inquiry, the former Scottish first minister said she apologised for any lack of clarity in the answer she gave to Channel 4’s Ciaran Jenkins during one of her media briefings in August 2021.

At the time, she said any inquiry would have access to the messages, but many had been deleted some months previously.