The Scottish leader admitted on Wednesday that she breached her own strict COVID-19 standards after being photographed in a pub without a mask.
“It was a stupid mistake and I’m very sorry,” Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said after the Scottish edition of The Sun has posted a front page photo of her talking to a group of women last Friday without covering her face.
“I talk every day about the importance of masks, so I will make no excuses,” the Scottish government leader said.
“I was wrong, I’m kicking myself and I’m sorry,” he said.
Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party, admitted the mistake only after the Sun showed her talking to a group of women in a pub after a funeral in Edinburgh last week.
It was printed just a day after Sturgeon made his last speech to the Scottish parliament on the importance of wearing masks. According to a law passed by his party, customers of pubs and restaurants must cover their faces unless they are sitting at the table.
His political rivals, the Scottish Conservatives, he tweeted the cover of the Sun, saying Sturgeon “should know better.”
“There can’t be one rule for Nicola Sturgeon and another for the rest,” the party said.
With publishing cables