absolutely, there has been this criticism, if you like, of his personal behaviour, but also of his professional handling of the pandemic. that said, of course, you will find people to come to matt hancock's defence and say, you know, he had one hell tricky spot being that britain's health secretary in the middle of a pandemic. there has also been criticism, of course, of his boss, of borisjohnson, for hanging on to him but loyalty did seem to matter to mrjohnson. yes. i mean, one of the things that is most striking about this, philippa, and people watching around the world will know this, is people were wondering what on earth do you have to do to either get sacked or resign from borisjohnson's government? because it is very much his style, never apologise, never explain, and incredibly sort of aggressive attitude towards any criticism, so he stood behind other ministers who have done extraordinary things, ministers who have been accused of bullying, accused of messing up people's

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