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Scottish Government pandemic response not facing enough scrutiny from MSPs, says Richard Leonard

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Nicola Sturgeon should make daily updates on the Covid-19 crisis to MSPs instead of at media briefings, the Scottish Labour leader has said.

Richard Leonard said the Scottish Government's response to the pandemic was not being submitted to enough parliamentary scrutiny.

Holyrood bosses have already insisted that major announcements on the easing of lockdown restrictions should be made in front of MSPs in the first instance.Leonard said the Scottish Government and individual ministers had not made themselves open to scrutiny during the pandemic.He told the Press Association: "We've said that parliament should be given the opportunity to scrutinise the government."I think it's a reasonable criticism of the government that they have been

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