DUP ex-Minister: ‘Only nut jobs and ardent nationalists on Twitter’ wanted to close schools as Covid advanced – Belfast Telegraph

WhatsApp messages during Covid involving DUP ministers were published yesterday

Former Education Minister Peter Weir after taking questions at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, sitting in Belfast (Credit: Press Eye)

Only nut jobs and ardent nationalists on Twitter felt schools should close as Covid-19 made its first advance in NI during March 2020, former Education Minister Peter Weir told Executive colleagues at the time.

The comment was included in a transcript of a WhatsApp group involving Mr Weir, along with DUP Executive colleagues Emma Little-Pengelly, Gordon Lyons and Edwin Poots.

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DUP ex-Minister: 'Only nut jobs and ardent nationalists on Twitter' wanted to close schools as Covid advanced - Belfast Telegraph

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