suggested taking hancock off and putting gove on. to which mr cummings seems to have replied, this would have a severe risk of making it worse, not better. reporter: did you really thinkj matt hancock was useless, sir? boris johnson s team says they have full confidence in mr hancock. but dominic cummings was part of making the decisions that affected thousands of lives and deaths. strip away the personal animosity and the huge political bust up, and he s not the only voice critical of the government s handling of care homes, of testing, of the speed of lockdown at the start. and no secretary of state wants to be asked this kind of question. reporter: are you - hopeless, mr hancock? i don t think so. are you hopeless? i don t think so, he says. asked about his own competence ahead of a vote on covid today. the right honourable gentleman now forever branded as hopeless hancock by his own leader. - well, for many of our - constituents, when they ll be watching the news tonight,
blank and he said that hancock was totally blank hopeless. he was a guy letting off steam blank hopeless. he was a guy letting off steam very late at night and i think off steam very late at night and i think people will look at this and say this think people will look at this and say this was a crisis we have all talked say this was a crisis we have all talked about colleagues at work and different talked about colleagues at work and different ways, particularly members of stress different ways, particularly members of stress and there ll be a lot of understanding for the way he and whether understanding for the way he and whether hancock will say i think, there whether hancock will say i think, there witi whether hancock will say i think, there will be in november and not before there will be in november and not before summer, i think this may buy hancoci
apparently in a message to mr cummings, wrote, on ppe, it s been a disaster. and appears to have suggested taking hancock off and putting gove on. to which mr cummings seems to have replied, this would have a severe risk of making it worse, not better. reporter: did you really thinkj matt hancock was useless, sir? borisjohnson s team says they have full confidence in mr hancock. but dominic cummings was part of making the decisions that affected thousands of lives and deaths. strip away the personal animosity and the huge political bust up, and he s not the only voice critical of the government s handling of care homes, of testing, of the speed of lockdown at the start. and no secretary of state wants to be asked this kind of question. reporter: are you - hopeless, mr hancock? i don t think so. are you hopeless? i don t think so, he says. asked about his own competence ahead of a vote on covid today. the right honourable gentleman now forever branded as hopeless -