It was a bad day in front of the Public Accounts Committee for Dame Lin Homer. Despite being the outgoing boss of HMRC, Homer admitted she was no tax expert:
Meanwhile, Google boss Matt Brittin also had a miserable time in front of the committee. He was laughed at during the hearing after appearing to forget how much he earned:
Met Police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe went on the defensive as he came up against John Humphrys on the Today programme. He dismissed Humphrys’s claim about the police publicizing specific details of their investigation into Lord Bramall as ‘nonsense’:
Jeremy Hunt vowed to impose new contracts on doctors following yesterday’s strike. He told the Commons that the deal was good for doctors and would give additional pay to medics working unsociable hours at weekends:
But unsurprisingly Labour’s Heidi Alexander did not see it in the same way. She told Hunt it was time he needed to start acting as the secretary for the NHS – and told him to be better at replying to her letters, accusing him of not working hard enough:
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