Scottish islands could be the test-bed for lifting the coronavirus lockdown by introducing contact testing and tracing, Michael Gove has suggested.
The senior Cabinet minister who deals with the Whitehall response to Covid-19 said there was “specific scientific justification” to show that islands could be areas where measures to lift lockdown could be piloted.
Speaking by video link to the Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee Gove told MPs regional variation is something being looked at.
He said: "My own personal view is that we do it as one United Kingdom."But there is a specific scientific justification for saying island communities can be areas where you could pilot some measures, contact tracing in particular, in order to combine