Nicola Sturgeon's top civil servant who deleted Covid WhatsApp's retires with £1.4m pension

A top civil servant who urged colleagues to destroy their covid Whatsapp messages retired with a pension worth £1.4m. Ken Thomson was also given a CBE despite his role in one of the biggest scandals of Nicola Sturgeon’s time as First Minister.

Sturgeon faced a huge backlash this year over revelations she and her senior civil servants deleted their messages during the pandemic. They insisted mass deletion was in line with government guidance, but the families of covid victims alleged a cover up.

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