NICOLA Sturgeon has urged Dominic Cummings to admit he made a mistake and apologise for travelling during lockdown from London to Durham.
She was speaking at the Scottish Government's briefing as news broke that the Prime Minister's chief aide would make a statement today and take questions from reporters on his actions.
Asked what she would like him to say, she said: "Perhaps concede that he made a mistake, that he didn't follow the rules and instead of trying retrospectively rewrite those rules to admit he made a mistake and apologise for that."
She added: "That aside there are lots of detailed questions about his account and the account that was given afterwards by his wife of his isolation that don't to me seem to tally up. But I'm sure there are many journalists who will put those questions to him.
"But I think a simple recognition that in saying and I think for many people hearing the Prime Minister say last night that he acted appropriately and in following the instinct of any parent.
“A lot of parents will have heard that as suggesting that he was following the rules, that they didn't act like good parents. And I think that is really really unfair and correcting that suggestion and that impression should be something he should consider doing."
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