Health Secretary Matt Hancock appeared in front of MPs today to defend himself against Cummings allegations
Matt Hancock today laid out his version of how events unfolded in the UK s first wave of Covid in an hours-long grilling from MPs in which he said everybody had been operating on highly sketchy information .
The Health Secretary appeared before the Health and Science Select Committee in Parliament to defend himself against explosive allegations made by former No10 adviser Dominic Cummings who accused him of being incompetent and said he should have been sacked 15 to 20 times in 2020.
He said he wrote a blank cheque for a Covid vaccine in January last year, was convinced the virus was spreading from people without symptoms even before SAGE or the World Health Organization would acknowledge it, and that shocking early models warned 820,000 people could die but advisers told him not to lock down too early.