Matt Hancock denies ‘completely wrong’ claims he rejected Covid care home testing advice – UK politics live

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Former health secretary’s spokesperson says claims made by the Daily Telegraph are a ‘distorted account’

about co-writing Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries with him in which she said he was “surprisingly inclined to disclosure”. Hancock did not keep a real diary during the pandemic, and so the book, which is written in diary form, was compiled with extensive reference to contemporary records, including WhatsApp messages. She said that she did not expect him to reveal everything, but that he “shared far more than I could ever have imagined”.

explaining why she has done so, she says that the public deserves to know the truth about what happened and that the public inquiry is going to take too long. She says:– has yet to begin formal hearings. Alarmingly, it does not appear to have any specific timeframe or deadline. The hopelessly open-ended nature of the formal process makes these WhatsApp files all the more important. Amid the ever-present threat of another pandemic, perhaps more deadly than the last, we emphatically cannot afford to wait until the mid-2030s or even beyond to learn lessons. Those who have information in the public interest need to put it out there right now.

Hancock is more sensitive about this subject than any other. The accusation that he blithely discharged Covid-positive patients from hospitals into care homes, without thinking about how this might seed the virus among the frail elderly, or attempting to stop this happening, upsets and exasperates him. The evidence I have seen is broadly in his favour.

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