SCOTTISH Labour has lambasted the government’s “catastrophic” failure after a new report found Scotland’s central stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE) ran “very low” in the early stages of the pandemic. 

Party leader Anas Sarwar has raised widespread concerns which have arisen following the publication of an Audit Scotland report which shows the NHS was just “hours away from disaster.”

The report, released today, reiterated its earlier finding that the Scottish government did not fully implement recommendations from pandemic preparedness exercises.