What has Dominic Cummings revealed about Matt Hancock that we didn’t already know? The most eye-catching stuff, of course, is the Prime Minister calling the health secretary ‘totally fucking hopeless’. But on the specific charges that created this impression, much of his lengthy blog on evidence reiterates what he told the select committee session last month, rather than providing the documentation backing it up.
Cummings rebuts Hancock’s claim that he threw ‘a protective ring around care homes’, writing: ‘The reality: Covid patients were sent untested from hospital to care homes and Hancock neglected care homes and testing throughout April partly because Hancock was trying to focus effort on his press conference at the end of April claiming success for his announcement on 2/4.’ It is well-known that patients were sent untested to care homes.
Hancock’s claim is that he told colleagues he wanted to get patients tested and then went about setting up that testing capacity.
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