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By Press Association 2021 Dominic Cummings, former Chief Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, giving evidence to a joint inquiry of the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology Committees Revelations about the Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as recalled by aide Dominic Cummings, feature on the front of many Thursday papers. His marathon seven-hour session of evidence to MPs gave the press plenty to...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the claims from Dominic Cummings were untrue, while the Prime Minister insisted he was ‘getting on with the…

“I’ve been straight with people in public and in private throughout.” During a seven-hour evidence session to MPs on Wednesday, Mr Cummings claimed his former boss, the Prime Minister, is “unfit” to lead and his Government’s failures had led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Apart from his damning assessment of Mr Johnson, Mr Cummings saved his fiercest criticism for Mr Hancock over failings around care homes policy, personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement an...

Matt Hancock finally addressed the issue directly as he was repeatedly grilled on the allegations from the maverick former No10 chief at a Downing Street briefing this evening.

Answering an urgent question in the Commons, Mr Hancock said: “Every day since I began working on the response to this pandemic last January, I’ve got up each morning and asked ‘What must I do to protect life?’ “That is the job of the Health Secretary in a pandemic. “We’ve taken an approach of openness, transparency and explanation of both what we know and of what we don’t know.” Mr Cummings accused the Health Secretary of making a “stupid”...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the claims from Dominic Cummings were untrue, while the Prime Minister insisted he was ‘getting on with the…

The Health Secretary said he had been ‘straight with people’ throughout the coronavirus crisis.

The Health Secretary will face MPs on Thursday over allegations made by former senior No 10 aide Dominic Cummings that he lied to colleagues and performed “disastrously” during the Covid pandemic. Matt Hancock told the PA news agency on Wednesday night he had not seen Mr Cummings’ seven-hour evidence to MPs as he was “saving lives” by dealing with the vaccination rollout. He will answer a Commons urgent question and is due to lead a Government press conference, the day after a scathin...

By Press Association 2021 Dominic Cummings, former Chief Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, giving evidence to a joint inquiry of the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology Committees Revelations about the Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as recalled by aide Dominic Cummings, feature on the front of many Thursday papers. His marathon seven-hour session of evidence to MPs gave the press plenty to...

By Press Association 2021 Dominic Cummings, former Chief Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, giving evidence to a joint inquiry of the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology Committees Revelations about the Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as recalled by aide Dominic Cummings, feature on the front of many Thursday papers. His marathon seven-hour session of evidence to MPs gave the press plenty to...