are consequences notjust for his career but for his family to and you saw there and read in the statement and he said i need to be with his children that it is this time but there is no doubt the pressure was building behind the scenes yesterday and today. mps weren t exactly rushing to back and publicly, some were going privately to the prime minister and to were going privately to the prime ministerand to mr were going privately to the prime minister and to mr hancock himself, even his friend saying that his position just wasn t tenable and is that charge of hypocrisy that you simply cannot stand in front of the nation for a year telling them about rules and they have to follow them and be seen to break them yourself. the idea next week that he would turn up in parliament and the house of commons on monday and later on in the week making announcements about may be more restrictions or about the nhs from his authority had gone. there are questions to for the prime minister actually, s
he s left his ministerialjob and his marriage, but remains an mp. in newmarket in his constituency, many agreed that the accusations of hypocrisy over the rules meant he had to stand down from government. i m pleased he has resigned. ifeel like he had no choice but to resign. he is setting the rules, he setting the guidance, and he is expecting everybody to follow those, but then he hasn t followed those himself. how can he tell us to do one thing and then he does- something else himself? it s not right, is it? he s a bit of a hypocrite, isn t he? the decision to go was matt hancock s although he was helped by private discussions with senior tories. not, though, by the prime minister, who backed him publicly. it shouldn t have come to this last night. borisjohnson should have had the guts, the spine, the awareness, the judgment to sack him on friday. one cabinet minister this morning said he was right not to. we are in the middle of a very surreal situation with the pandemic, something
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there were people urging boris johnson to get rid of matt hancock on friday. what do we know, how much do we know about why that clearly didn t happen. we do we know about why that clearly didn t happen- do we know about why that clearly didn t ha en. ~ ~ ., ., didn t happen. we know from looking back at how the didn t happen. we know from looking back at how the prime didn t happen. we know from looking back at how the prime minister - didn t happen. we know from looking back at how the prime minister has i back at how the prime minister has reacted in similar situations before that he s not a prime minister that likes to be bouncing to sacking someone. i think in some ways it s now surprise he came out backing matt hancock initially, certainly on friday the line was matt hancock had apologised, the matter is closed, downing street said. senior conservative figures behind the scenes said to the prime minister and matt hancock, the situation is not possible for him to continue as
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