Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon says she felt 'overwhelmed' by COVID pandemic during testimony
Scotland's former first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, came close to tears on Wednesday as she told a public inquiry that she struggled with the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic – and sometimes doubted whether she wanted to be first minister at such a consequential time. Testifying to the UK's public inquiry into the pandemic response, Sturgeon said she sometimes felt "overwhelmed by the scale of what we were dealing with," particularly at the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020. "I was the first minister when the pandemic struck," she said in Edinburgh. "There's a large part of me wi...