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It seems like government officials, industry leaders and the nation's largest cattlemen associations are finally hearing the pleas from the countryside.

Matt Hancock brushed aside Dominic Cummings' allegations he was a serial liar who should have been fired  Cummings laid a series of Covid failings at the door of Mr Hancock, the Health and Social Care Secretary  Renegade aide told MPs: 'He should've been fired for at least 15, 20 things, including lying to everybody'  Cummings claimed Boris Johnson 's 'disastrous' handling of the pandemic had cost tens of thousands of lives He told MPs that senior ministers and advisers, including himself, had fallen 'disastrously short'

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.

Launching a dramatic bid to bring down the Prime Minister, he blamed a toxic mix of complacency and indecision for the needless deaths.

Making his long-awaited appearance before a Commons select committee, the Prime Minister's former chief adviser unleashed a relentless salvo of astonishing allegations.