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At First Minister’s Questions, Nicola Sturgeon was challenged repeatedly about the hundreds of older people who were discharged from hospital in the early days of the pandemic to care homes, without being tested for coronavirus.
The first minister has previously accepted that she cannot say for certain whether people died as a result of being discharged from hospital into care homes.
Boris Johnson will be questioned by senior MPs as he faces a growing Tory revolt and plummeting poll ratings over the Dominic Cummings row.
The prime minister will appear before the powerful liaison committee – the only committee with the authority to question the PM – at 4pm. The group of senior MPs are to grill Johnson on all aspects of his response to the coronavirus crisis, including over his most senior adviser Dominic Cummings’ 260-mile lockdown trip to Durham.
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