By Professor John Robertson

The broadcasts today don’t mention this and you have to read down to the bottom of this BBC Scotland report to find this:

Scotland was the first part of the UK to commission a public inquiry into infected blood.

It had been a key election pledge of the SNP government when it came to power in 2007, and was carried out by Scottish judge Lord Penrose.

But the Penrose inquiry lacked the full statutory powers to compel witnesses from outside of Scotland to give evidence, and until 1999 health policy had been controlled by Westminster.

Campaigner Bill Wright said the publication of the report had been a disappointment, but added that it had led to “better things” in Scotland.

“We developed a better support scheme than had existed in the rest of the UK and there was a tiny wee light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r80224y0o

Once more, of course, there is nothing of these important facts:
It was the Jim Callaghan Labour Government in 1976 which signed the deal, to cut costs, and against expert advice. It was then successive Conservative governments which kept it going despite repeated expert warnings.

Who let it happen in not-yet-devolved Scotland?

It was the Labour Secretary of State for Scotland, Willie Ross, who saw the papers including the warnings, in Cabinet.

For more detail, see these:

at: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=blood