Nicola Sturgeon refused to admit a delay to her shambolic vaccine passport scheme was necessary on Tuesday.
Challenged by Douglas Ross to concede the scheme was a shambles and should have been delayed if not scrapped, the First Minister avoided answering the question.
She also couldn’t say how many people had tried and failed to download the app over the weekend.
At First Minister’s Questions last week, the Scottish Conservatives had called for the scheme to be delayed or scrapped.
Scottish Conservative Leader Douglas Ross said: “It is very encouraging to see case numbers, hospital admissions, and intensive care admissions falling.
“However, this raises even more questions about the justification for the SNP’s vaccine passport scheme, which has been an utter shambles from the very beginning.
“The app was delayed and only came out less than 12 hours before the scheme began. Instantly, it was a disaster. People couldn’t find the app. They couldn’t get the app open. It didn’t work.
“There was no public information campaign. Businesses had absolutely no idea what they were supposed to do. Football clubs ignored it. What an avoidable own goal this has been.
“Nicola Sturgeon sounds ridiculous when she claims the scheme came into force “as planned”.
“The SNP somehow didn’t foresee the high demand over an app that they wanted everyone who goes to gigs, everyone who goes to the football, and everyone who goes to nightclubs to download.
“But the problem wasn’t all demand, it was down to serious errors in the SNP system.
“Nicola Sturgeon is now bringing in the ‘4 Es’ approach. But we don’t need 4 Es to describe this scheme, we only need one - embarrassment.
“This scheme has been a total embarrassment since the day it launched.
“The First Minister can’t even put a number on how many people tried and failed to download the £600,000 app over the weekend.
“It’s extraordinary that Nicola Sturgeon won’t accept that this disastrous policy should have been delayed, after such a chaotic start.”