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Matt Hancock feels the heat over care home tests Health Secretary insists he did not lie about Covid checks on patients being discharged from hospital 27 May 2021 • 10:15pm Matt Hancock faced mounting political pressure on Thursday night after he admitted he had allowed people to be discharged from hospital into care homes without being tested for Covid. The Heath Secretary insisted he had not promised Cabinet colleagues that everyone who made the switch would be tested, only that tests would...

In his evidence to MPs, Cummings accused Hancock of being obsessed with meeting a “stupid” target he set himself to offer 100,000 Covid tests a day and of diverting officials’ attention away from the task Cummings had set them to build a test-and-trace scheme from scratch capable of processing a million tests a day. Recalling a major battle in Whitehall, Cummings said he had to call around and tell people “do not do what Hancock says, build the thing properly for the medium term”. Mea...

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have defended themselves following the extraordinary criticisms levelled at them by Dominic Cummings. Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the “unsubstantiated” attacks on him by Dominic Cummings are “not true”, as he fought to save his career. The Prime Minister’s former aide accused Mr Hancock of repeatedly lying, being disastrously incompetent and claimed he should have been fired on multiple occasions during the course of the pandemic. Forced to go to th...

The PMs top advisor said that Dr Ben Warner told Boris Johnson (pictured together) in March the NHS would be smashed in weeks if not days because SAGE had got it all completely wrong.

Cummings: Matt Hancock should have been sacked for lying amid pandemic Former spad blasts health secretary and says DHSC procurement system was "completely hopeless" Photo: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo Matt Hancock should have been sacked for the way he acted in the early phase of the coronavirus pandemic, former No.10 adviser Dominic Cummings has said. Cummings, who was Boris Johnson’s chief political aide last year, said he had advised the prime minister to fire the health secretary “for a...

Cummings: Matt Hancock engaged in ‘criminal, disgraceful behaviour’ Health Secretary Matt Hancock (Jacob King/PA) Dominic Cummings has accused Matt Hancock of “criminal, disgraceful behaviour” by interfering with the NHS test and trace system, adding that he urged Boris Johnson to fire him over it. The former chief adviser told MPs the health secretary had set a “stupid” 100,000 daily target for tests by the end of April 2020, while Boris Johnson was still in hospital with coronavir...

Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings claimed the Government failed the public in its response to the pandemic.

One of Boris Johnson’s most senior officials said “we are absolutely f**ked” because pandemic preparations were so bad, Dominic Cummings alleged today. In extraordinary evidence to MPs, he said thousands died needlessly because the Government “fell disastrously short” of what was needed. Painting a devastating portrait of complacency and incompetence at the heart of government as Covid arrived in Britain, he alleged: Helen MacNamara, the former...

The PM's former chief aide makes a serious of claims about the government's handling of the pandemic.

PM also fails to deny delaying second lockdown because Covid was ‘only killing 80-year-olds’